fratri
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A couple of coyote skulls complete…
These skulls are from last season’s downed coyotes…..
Lots of ways to do them but this is how I do mine…
I remove the skull/head from the animal after it is skinned.
Place the skull/head in a bucket of water (I don’t even remove any flesh)
Place the bucket in a farmer’s field far away from any residence as the weather warms it is going to stink
Come late summer all the meat will have been eaten clean from bugs/bacteria
Remove the skull from the really smelly bucket of rotten water (where old garage clothes and long dish washing gloves as the stink will stick to clothes and skin)
Be careful to catch all the teeth as they will have fallen out
Place the skull/teeth and lower jaws (as they fell apart too) into a bucket of clean water with joy dish soap as this will help degrease and remove the terrible smell.
Leave them in the dish soap for a couple days (scrubbing them periodically with a tooth brush as this will remove any leftover debris and stink)
After a couple of days in the joy soap, dry off the skull, glue the lower jaw back together and start inserting the teeth back in. I usually just use white glue (that dries clear) to glue the jaw and teeth together.
Once all teeth are in and dry, I paint brush a light coat of Hydrogen Peroxide (20 volume I picked up at Shoppers)
I let put 3-4 coats of hydrogen peroxide allowing the previous coat to dry first (roughly 12 hrs intervals)
The more coats you put on the brighter/whiter they get. ( I think I got about 5 more to go…lol)
These skulls are from last season’s downed coyotes…..
Lots of ways to do them but this is how I do mine…
I remove the skull/head from the animal after it is skinned.
Place the skull/head in a bucket of water (I don’t even remove any flesh)
Place the bucket in a farmer’s field far away from any residence as the weather warms it is going to stink
Come late summer all the meat will have been eaten clean from bugs/bacteria
Remove the skull from the really smelly bucket of rotten water (where old garage clothes and long dish washing gloves as the stink will stick to clothes and skin)
Be careful to catch all the teeth as they will have fallen out
Place the skull/teeth and lower jaws (as they fell apart too) into a bucket of clean water with joy dish soap as this will help degrease and remove the terrible smell.
Leave them in the dish soap for a couple days (scrubbing them periodically with a tooth brush as this will remove any leftover debris and stink)
After a couple of days in the joy soap, dry off the skull, glue the lower jaw back together and start inserting the teeth back in. I usually just use white glue (that dries clear) to glue the jaw and teeth together.
Once all teeth are in and dry, I paint brush a light coat of Hydrogen Peroxide (20 volume I picked up at Shoppers)
I let put 3-4 coats of hydrogen peroxide allowing the previous coat to dry first (roughly 12 hrs intervals)
The more coats you put on the brighter/whiter they get. ( I think I got about 5 more to go…lol)