Hi there!
I was hoping to find a good place to ask and I think this will work well. I am new at this and please don't say anything mean if I did anything wrong...
A week or so ago, I found a fully intact male deer spine in my parent's backyard. It was pretty clean, no bones or anything but it was dirty. I took it and cleaned it with bleach which helped a little bit but now I'm stuck with I'm assuming meat left in the parts of the spine that I cannot really reach with a scrubbing brush. Any idea how to get rid of that? (Also, making it whiter will help out alot.)
My only problem is that towards the center of the spine, it is weakening so I cannot submerge it in water too long because I don't want it to break.
I don't have alot of money to spend on this and I also live in an apartment so I am sort of limited on space. (Not to mention what the neighbors would think if I was outside with this thing!)
Thank you for your help!
--Megan
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to get it completely clean or it is going to stink. If, I'm assuming correctly, what you have are the vertabrea (sp?) from the backbone of a deer? If this is the case then you need to either boil it to get the rest of the bones clean, or soak it in water for several weeks to rot off the rest of the cartiledge and meat.
Wolfie
Yeah, I have the vertabrea of the deer. Thank you very much for responding!
It sucks that I'll have to break it but I guess I'll do what I have to.