At some point last night, a wood pigeon (Columba palumbus) met a grisly end at the hands jaws of a cat or a fox. My initial survey of the scene suggests it's eaten the head, and not a lot else. There are feathers EVERYWHERE. It's amazing how far a pigeon can be spread.
Now, a normal person would scoop up the carcass and dispose of it in the bin, and be very glad that bin collection day is tomorrow.
But I'm not a normal person. Because I want to dissect it and skeletonise it. If my husband is reading this, don't worry honey, I'm going to do it all outside, so you're not going to come home to find the kitchen looking like something out of "Texas Chainsaw Massacre" (oh but only if we'd cleared the basement enough for me to have a lab down there...).
So. Does anyone have any tips? Tesco don't sell dermestids. I remember boiling a carcass in a crock-pot with some chemical added to it, and I want to say it was sodium bicarbonate, or some other easily obtainable powder. Can anyone confirm? Google is not obliging at the moment.
Now, a normal person would scoop up the carcass and dispose of it in the bin, and be very glad that bin collection day is tomorrow.
But I'm not a normal person. Because I want to dissect it and skeletonise it. If my husband is reading this, don't worry honey, I'm going to do it all outside, so you're not going to come home to find the kitchen looking like something out of "Texas Chainsaw Massacre" (oh but only if we'd cleared the basement enough for me to have a lab down there...).
So. Does anyone have any tips? Tesco don't sell dermestids. I remember boiling a carcass in a crock-pot with some chemical added to it, and I want to say it was sodium bicarbonate, or some other easily obtainable powder. Can anyone confirm? Google is not obliging at the moment.
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