Cleaning a Skull in a Flower Pot (NO SMELL!) 

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Great video! I've always been a cold water macerator and after all these years the stink still kills me. Someday will have beetles but until then, I'll be a flower pot skull cleaning kinda guy.

Earth worms won't help really but red worms do. Carrion beetles and flies and maggots are the best though! You can get this job done in about 3 weeks if you leave it partially exposed so bugs can get to it

Super useful! I just moved from a large yard-block to a little suburban place, and this really helps answer my questions about how I'm gonna clean skulls in this new environment. Adaptation! You rule, man.

Love bone art. In FL snakes are commonly hit by cars and I use this same method. Have also done on bunny, shark, squirrel, and fox. Great video.

I have never been so happy to be so grossed out. See I want to carve skulls. Been watching your videos. I even subbed. Yesterday I thought. I need to learn how to clean these things. You have helped me to learn of places to get skulls at. I kind of know how to use a dremel. But, it is not my strong point. I want to know about using beetles to clean skulls. I am from the city. We do have butcher shops. Even thought about going to parks with my dog for bone hunting. I do not want to use Maceration. I have no problem with getting dirty. Just bad smells, that I do not like. I have a small bone collection. With a Raccoon skull as my pride and joy. Just upping my game by having carved skulls. That would be sweet.

This is a fantastic idea! It's basically maceration in dirt.

This is really cool!! I did not know you could do this! 😍

Thank you very much! So useful to me!

Great idea for the city dwelling hunter! I usually just find a fire ant hill , so they’re worth something.

Good job! I may have to try this

Yoooo that looks amazing my man!

This is so great to know and I will be trying this out

if you want better drainage which could potentially reduce the corpse wax use potting soil, top soil isn’t meant to be used in pots but it does good enough so people still use it

Im going to have to try this!!

Awesome and insightful videos. I have a dead raven I'm wanting to harvest the bones, would you have an idea on timing i should leave it in the pot for?

Im having an issue with skin on the head.. its road kill and i managed to get the head off in the end easier then i expected. i know it works better if the skin is removed but this is new to me, i dont want to damage it and i also dont have the right tools yet and i had to give back the inly sharp knife i had. Thank you so much for these skull videos they really helped and i've subscribed. Xx🖤💀💋

Do you have a video on like bone cage cleaning method?

I just potted a whole fox like this. Was gonna skin it but a whole day in a warm car in a plastic bag made it, well.... wet with very smelly body fluids & I was short on time before my bf found out I am using our flower pots as a cemetary. Hopefully the skin will decompose good enough if I leave it for 1 year. Living in southern Sweden.

Awesome video, I am crossing my fingers

Looks like I'm going to use this trick once a pet snake passes away. I really want to keep and reconstruct the skeleton, but with just burying it in the woods I worry about losing the bones. Still got a good few years before I have a dead snake on my hands but hey! No harm in being prepared.

Very cool, will have to try this method. Have you ever tried the black garbage bag method? It works very fast in warm weather but the smell, OMG the smell...

Would you reuse the soil for another skulls or is it better to chance the soil every time? And would dirt from the garden do the same? Love your videos by the way

I was wondering, does the pot has to have some holes at the bottom? Thank you!

What a great way to clean a skull. Just a couple of quick questions what sort of liquid drains out of the bottom of the pot ? If you left it in longer would it be totally cleaned out except for the grease and staining? I have 2 buffalo skulls from the 2 we raised from calves and more than a few years ago I just wired them to a fence through a winter of rain and snow here on Vancouver Island in British Columbia. The crows had their go at them and the weather did the rest. They have their horns on them so just about impossible to find anything large enough to bury them in, not that I knew about this method. Their size also made it impossible to bleach to white, though I am rather fond of the rustic look of the au natural colouration. Since finding your videos I think I am just about ready to take them off the wall and start designing a pattern to carve. I just dabble with carving smaller bone pieces though even that I have not done for a couple years. You have inspired me to pick it up again and for that I am eternally grateful. Continued success to you I look forward to seeing more . Thanks.

Will this method work with smaller skulls as well? I have some tiny critters in my freezer until spring because I had no idea what to do with them but i want to start working with deceased animals. This video is super helpful

Can you reuse the dirt? Or do you need to discard it? I look forward to more videos.

this is genius

Good video thank for the experience. Could you make an beetle skull cleaning video?

What strength peroxide do you use ?

Could it stay in a pot over winter?

How long would this take for something bigger like a hog skull or something?

This is awesome. I found two deer skulls in the winter; now that it's spring the skin in leathery and really hard. One skull still has fur, an ear and softer skin on him. Should I cut as much off before I put them in their pots? Also, can I use dry leaves instead of sawdust, or perhaps even eggshells (I have a lot of those for the garden)? I intend on planting flowers on top like you did. Any advice for this woodland treasure hunter? Thank you so much - great video! :)

Can I use a skull with the skin still on or use an entire animal such as a squirrel? I love collecting I don't think I can skin an animal just yet! And would you suggest to flip the skull over in thirty days so the underside and tongue would also decompose? I don't have a proper respirator either and I don't want to mess with that as much as I can!

When trying to purchase "saw dust" at the pet store, would it be aspen or pine shavings?

I’m planning to do this for small things like mice and rats. When summer comes, can I re use the soil?

Could you bury a deer skull with antlers the same way? Obviously most of the antlers would stick out. But would the dirt damage or discolor parts of the antlers under the dirt? If so it there a way to protect against that?

How long would it take for a rat, small bird, or even bigger birds take?

Saludos

If you were to let the skull sit and decomp a little longer would the waxy bits be less present?

I just buried a gator head twenty one days ago, it’s been really warm in West Georgia. How much longer should I wait to pull it?

Awesome video! Question, a neighbourhood cat recently gifted me a dead rat, which I decided to do this for the first time. I made the mistake of filling with paper litter around the body instead of layering with soil like 01:30. I had a thick layer of soil on top and bottom, just the whole middle is paper litter. Would this still work well? It's been 4 days and still no smell, so I can't wait to check after 2 months

Wouldn't it be easy to lose teeth or cartilage in a setup like this? Also with small animals it would be hard to find all small bones and vertebrae I guess.

I notice the skull has "frayed edges" around the eye holes/orbits. Is this normal? What causes it?

If one doesn't have sawdust, could you use cat litter? 🤔

Question: I found a coyote corpse in the desert and took home the head. I think it had been dead for a long time. The skin is dried on there (even still has an ear), doesn't seem like there is any soft tissue left. Would burying it be the way to clean it? Or should I just try cleaning the hide off by hand? Also, this is the first time I'm trying to clean a skull.

How bad does the soil discolor antlers?

How much time it will take to decompose snake burried in soil

What flowers are those?

Do you have to skin the animal?

Wouldn’t dermestid beetles be easier?

hi! i have a bat skull i want to clean. will it smell if i bury it in a flowerpot on my windowsill?

Edmund Kemper did almost the same thing in his mothers garden, and everyone freaked out.

Will this work with birds? I mean I don’t see why it wouldn’t I’m just curious.

Give me a skull! Lol

I've doing lots of skulls now since i commented. I'm doing masceration also... wish i cpuld ask certain questions... Google isant so great for my particular questions. My insta is (( gorehound miss )) I got banned fully from facebook but if u or someone who is very knowlegable id be greatful

skulls? Don't hunt how would one get skulls??

Why don't you just boil it?

Now I can put bodies parts in my pots.....jk