OK true story here. The night my dad proposed to my mom, she had brought home a roadkill deer that her and one of my aunts had hit on the highway, and had thrown it in the trunk of the car and brought it home to butcher for food. That was the moment my dad truly knew she was a keeper. That was over 39 years ago. Still married to this day.
@@HeatherLynnOh Definitely. Also made me have high standards when looking to get married. Was lucky enough to find me a good woman too though! 👍 13 years so far, 2 kids and still going strong!
My Dad, shortly after he was married (it was the 1960's) decided after killing a rabbit with his car to deposit his roadkill on the kitchen work surface for my mum to prepare, he didn't bother telling her, so she came down in the morning to be confronted by the sigh of unexpected mangled rabbit by the kettle... unimpressed about sums up the reaction, unfortunately my Dad didn't get his road kill bunny stew, my mother putting her foot down on that one (I suspect mostly because she didn't want to encourage the idea for dead animals be left over night in the kitchen rather than any sense of squimishness), but I was informed that the bunny didn't go to waste being passed to the nice Greek lady next door who made dinner that night with it...
I really enjoyed watching Heather doing something really girly like a makeup and face cleaning tutorial. It was a ram skull that got made up, but it's still the same basic premise. Great video.
This is my first time cleaning a horned animal. I've done about 4 deer skulls before, but they are much smaller than this guy. Never had to pop horns off before, etc. Definitely had to go get a bigger pot!
So I grew up in the Panhandles of Oklahoma and Texas and in the 80's my mother used to make clocks and wall art out of Longhorn skulls. The easiest way to completely get the meat off the skull is to put it in a fire ant mound for a week or 2 depending on the size of the skull and the fire ant hill. Just make sure to disturb the ant hill every couple of days. Those ants will completely pick a skull clean. Power wash them off and you're done.
Dawn in the water helps cut the grease. Also, I add a little Borax or sodium carbonate to breakdown the tissues. For bleaching, mix your 40 strength peroxide with magnesium carbonate to form a paste which you can then brush on the skull and let dry. After it dries, you can brush off the residue and reuse. Quick White or BW2 can be substituted for magnesium carbonate. Sodium carbonate and magnesium carbonate can be ordered from taxidermy supply houses. Quick White and BW2 are available from beauty supply stores. Have fun.
hahaha I think the people you have to worry about are the ones who HIDE their enthusiasm for severed heads.. they usually have the human variety hanging about in their freezers..
I'm from Alabama. I usually leave my deer heads to rot during winter and put on fire ant hills when weather warms up. Come back to them couple months later. No flesh left. Still have to boil and clean with borax so they don't stink
Thats pretty much how we did it back in the 60's in Indiana. Not so sure about the fire ant spec. I seem to remember hills of the really big black ants. The process worked well with big turtle shells you wanted to save as well.
Great video. I'm glad you drug Eli with to share in the terrible smells, him gaging and coughing made me laugh. I'm looking forward to the next skull video, Cheers Heather.
I just did a wild boar skull from my daughter's first pig. Tip (on a fresh one) is skin the head but don't cut off the pig nose. When you boil it, you can grab the nose and use it to pull all the stuff (cartilage and junk) out of the snout. Good job on the ram. Don't bug too much about the lower jaw. It isn't usually part of a Europeam mount. Find a nice piece of wood and screw it to it.
I saw something on Court TV recently about some kid in Wisconsin trying to do this on the kitchen stove. From what I understand his didn't turn out nearly as good as yours did. I think he tried simmering instead of boiling, but his wasn't quite as big as a Ram. Apparently he didn't have Express VPN either.. haha. Nice Job Heather!
I’ve been doing skulls for 30 years and you just taught me something I didn’t know what was the name of that cream that you used that came out awesome.
I did a European style mount with the last nice Whitetail buck that I shot a few years back. I definitely like the look a lot better, and it makes the antlers look bigger as well.
Love European mounts . Almost all my whitetails I've harvested are European Mounted. I always skin the hide off when Fresh, then Freeze the Skull until I can get to it. Usually just Simmer like a Crockpot . After its clean, a Short simmer In Hydrogen peroxide is what I use to get it White. That hair cream worked really good though lol. Sheep skulls definitely look harder cause the horn shape. Not what I expected to see on your channel LMAO, love it!
Cool video, some skulls can be a pain to deal with. Not sure if you did it or not. But after the hair treatment and it’s boiled clean and it dries kinda chalky white. You can use some “mop and glow” floor cleaner to treat the skull and add a nice finish to it. Mop and glow also helps to add some moisture so it’s not as brittle.
You didn't fuck up, if it turned out the way you wanted than outstanding. Check out whitebone creations on RU-vid. Skull cleaning is what he does. Awesome video by the way.
Don’t they say art is pain? You really must love this stuff! I was wondering why cut off the horns until the end. That is horror beautiful. If you decide to sell this stuff, don’t lowball the prices and yourself and suffering! Well done.
@@HeatherLynnOh borax crystals going to take these up a notch. Can’t wait to see what creativity you’ll bring to these. Just wish there weren’t any rice to deal with. With you on that 🤢
I have cleaned a couple of skulls and I think it's a lot faster/easier if you skin them out then boil them in hot water with a little bit of dish soap I've also found out that the dish soap can help kill the nasty smell a little bit if it's an old rotten head. you did a great job on this skull would like to see more videos like this in the future
Heather, Are you feeling OK? I ask because in terms of typical Heather Lynn content, This was very laid back! 😂 I admire your determination in doing such a good job, Given the stinky circumstances!! I think this kind of project is very therapeutic for you! 😉😂😂
I started doing this about 8 years ago and like you I use a boiler but 1 thing I do different is once it's boiling I use a litre of bleach to help lossen all the flesh off and it starts the bleaching of the skull if u can get the bleach that butchers use to clean down all the fat from the mechanics and that really does help great video
This is definitely my dream girl most badass female of all time on RU-vid now that's just my opinion but I will say ain't no need for anybody to bulshit themselves this chick has got it and when you got it you got it
@@HeatherLynnOh borax crystals are cool as hell, I've been trying to get the stuff rounded up to taxidermy more than just skulls though, I want a whole skeleton. But like, a frankenbeast.
I guess I shouldn't have just had a Tuna and Salmon Poke bowl right before watching. I use my turkey fryer for making beer, also. I think yours is a single task model now!!! :P Turned out nice! Good job!
Boil pressure wash scrape, repeat as much as needed... Tip...Peroxide mixed with Oxiclean will get the skull whiter than the hair stuff and its cheaper...I also use a little bit of dawn soap and bleach when I boil...
@@HeatherLynnOh oh, y s I did, was just making bite it works great with peroxide, you did a great job, was just throwing out my mixture too...cheers...
Heather do you have meat ants where you are? Here I use the ants because they get everything, I just put it on the nest and leave it (use fishing line so you can get it back from the ants after.) this way you do not have to be near the smell
Heather giving new meaning to the words, "Getting handsy" She can find you, she can make you sleep with the fishes, and she can make the evidence disappear., and then nail it with a perfect sponsor spot.
One way I did it was to put the skull in a crab trap and dump it off the end of the dock and let the sea creatures do their work. It takes a little time but believe me, it works and you don’t get as dirty and it definitely doesn’t smell.
could have let it sit out in the sun for a few months, summer times the best. Blow torch works as long as you dont heat the bone too long. an old burn barrel with a smaller barrel floating inside filled with water works great for boiling just be sure to use some chain and pully system so you dont have to bob for bone in the wonderful water afterwards. I can come up with making things just for about anything lol
Any relation to the guy who wrote the script for Venom? " A pile of heads there, a pile of bodies there. Because that's what you're supposed to do." Lmao 🤣
You might want to try putting the head or whatever on an ant hill. Ants will clean it to the bone. That was told to me years ago when you wanted to clean the bones.
Dish soap and baking soda works when boiling them and helps break down the fat and oils and makes it easier to pull the meat off. Usually do 2 boils. Cleaning the bottom jaw and teeth without having them come apart is tough. Just keep it all together and glue what didn’t stay together. Nice job though!
If you want an easy head start on the de-fleshing part,we’d always find a Red Ant mound and shove the skulls down in it. Make sure to put some sort of container(Rubbermaid) over it with a large rock or cinder block on top to weigh it down so coyotes don’t carry it off and just leave it for a couple of weeks…..let those tiny,stingy lil’bastards do the work for you! Just a suggestion but it does work pretty well.
Great job, that was a very daunting task I'm sure! For the bad smells, I've used chapstick around the nose to help neutralize the smells of bad things around you. Or Mentholatum.
@@HeatherLynnOh We used to stuff skulls in the biggest ant bed we could find. Or just bury them for a couple of months... Had to keep the squirrels away from anything with antlers, but otherwise, nature is pretty efficient (if you've got the time)... Don't know how it'd work in TX, but we've got tons of creepy crawlies here in FL. Different critters take different times in the dirt though, and something like an alligator skull might take longer because the hide is tough.
as some one who used to do this every day for years in highschool next time use dawn dish soap it will pull. all the grease out of the bones and good old Elmer glue to glue the jaws tht come apart and put teeth back in
We always cook it till flesh starts to comes off but with dawn an borax then power washer once it cooks you have killed all bacteria you did a awesome job very proud of you keep up the hard work take care an God bless you
Little tip if you want to wait a little longer, just get a trash bag put the skull in the bag hang it in a tree and wait two years. After two years it will smell real bad but let it dry in the sun. Then get the rest of the hair off and bleach it in the sun.
Try burying the head and coving horns with a container to keep from bleaching. Bugs and worms clean them so well it's crazy. Keeps skull from getting weak from boiling also. Tech tip of the week.
You did a great job! It looks amazing. In my area we have had good luck putting them in or on a big fire ant pile but it does take a lot longer. Not a lot of hands on work though. We made a cage to go over them so animals wouldn’t drag them off. It might be worth a try.
Pretty sure you can just order maggot eggs or something and put em in a bucket or something with the skull and leave em for a bit. They do a great job cleaning and just screw off into flies afterwords.
Now that's very creative👍👍🖤🖤😁😁💯💯. I was always curious to see how they clean the bones off of dead animal carcess. But what you're doing, i'm getting the idea👍😁💯🖤
