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Looking. preferably coon/fox /opossum sized, up to coyote size and down to shrew size. Not necessary that they be whitened, just shelf-ready;...
looking for clean/dry, ready-to-use for crafts. Would prefer buying several pairs at a time. would poss be interested in pairs of other horns too,...
Ah ok. I am a fellow snakekeeper/former breeder myself :) The deer head idea is great; this can give you cheap practice on larger critters and...
Buy a feeder rat from a pet store; skin and mount. I know that many taxidermists buy pre-tanned skins, but to me it seems like you have to "earn"...
Could do a warm-water maceration. It won't smell great.. You could try soaking it in brown-bottle peroxide for 12 hours or so, and seeing if...
Awesome; thanks! The layers are relatively thick (1/2 inch) and this could explain. I'll get some of that.
I am salvaging dead dragonflies from a swimming pool and attempting to preserve them in clear resin (it goes by the name Pour-On.) I have used...
Maybe convince them to get a new cape, and keep a small piece of the original cape to be mounted in a shadowbox where it won't be touched? It...
They're right. I would recommend byinng a cleaned, complete, legal unarrticulated skeleton from a good seller and going from there. A set with...
Providing you're collecting the bones legally for your area, you can invest in a colony of dermestid beetles if this is an ongoing project. Or...
Buy frozen feeder mice/rats at a pet store. They are relatively inexpensive and if you goof up, you're not out much. Or yeah; go squirrel hunting!...
Yes; I was talking more about readily-available small game.
Are you just skinning them to tan the hides without the need for a taxidermy mount? If so, you can quickly skin off the backhide (ventrally)...
I have seen it more than a few times; bogus info is going around advising people to soak small animal skins in salt water. Please do not do this;...
Eh, old shawls and shoulder wraps can disintegrate if you get them wet. I have one myself; the fur looks great hung up, but the leather actually...
You could look into skinning and doing a denatured-alcohol pickle and stretching to dry if you want a flat skin and are not concerned with it...
Sure it's not a coyote tail? At any rate, you can try shaking it around in a tied-off garbage bag full of air and a few handfuls of hardwood...
ok; cool. I have a tanned cottontail that I just mounted and I carded the ears; they look fine.
For me, TruBond tans don't require as much breaking after tanning. EZ100 is good but you'll have another step that requires a large amount of...
Do you need to inject carded ears (on, say, a cottontail) if you either had it professionally tanned or did a pickle/home tan?
