Disinfecting?

[carlson]

Ok so I was up on my cousins farm and he had a little gift for me. It's a bull skull that I want to use in my carpets display cage once I'm done. Mainly cuz I think a skull would look cool in there and since I can get these when ever I want too lol but how would I disinfect it? I'm gonna put it back in the ground till spring so I know it's all cleaned out but then after cleaning it should i bake it? I don't know when I make the skulls that just hang off the wall they go in the ground for almost a year in a half too two years then they get sun baked until they look good and washed.

[3skulls]

http://cals.arizona.edu/pubs/natresources/az1144.pdf

http://www.adfg.alaska.gov/index.cfm?adfg=hunting.skull

http://m.instructables.com/id/Taxide...l-Preparation/

[carlson]

Perfect thank you 3skulls it's about how I did my deer skull that's becoming a little hate rack and the others so haha I just gotta put it back in ground for a while cuz my cousin dug it up early to give to me before I went home since I'm not on the farm alot anymore. Idk just thought it would look cool in the carpet display since she's gonna be the snake room display snake shell have a bigger cooler looking house specially if she's decided to be nice now haha

[3skulls]

My oldest Cal King used the brain cavity of a deer skull for a hide for years.

[carlson]

I don't think she'll be able to crawl in side but it will add too the cage and give her something to climb over an since I can't get these when ever I want it's kinda like well why not do it they look cool and she looks cool I think cool + cool= awesome haha

[sorraia]

I found a goat skull at work one time, still had quite a bit of meat left on it too. Since it had some lovely horns, I wanted to take it home for keeps. I buried it in a compost pile for at least a year, maybe longer. When it came out, it was perfectly cleaned and bleached, no need for anything else.

I know other ways you can deal with it are to boil it (smelly!) or stick it in the sun to bleach it. Some people also use dermatid (sp?) beetles, but I don't know where you can acquire those (maybe order online?).

[3skulls]

Yep you can order kits online.

[carlson]

To get to where it's at now it was buried and my cousin dug it up but I put it back in the ground still some stuff on the inside. Far as getting meat off and all that I just dig a hole and put them in it. Just wasn't sure if I needed to do anything special since its going in a cage ill wash it good and sun bleach it once I dig it back out again it should turn out nicely. My cousin has another bull due to be butchered in spring an he's wondering if I want that one too ha decisions decisions.

[3skulls]

I think I would do a peroxide soak, and bake it for an hour at 200*
After you dig it back up.

I think that would kill just about anything that laid eggs or are hiding way up the nasal cavity.

[carlson]

K I was thinking about baking but didn't know a good temp ill do that for sure then