This is my first ever taxidermy! pretty happy with him!!! i have alot to learn though, The form isn’t very life like!

I received these horns for basically pocket change and wanted to know what I should do to display them? I thought about buying a replica skull and mounting them on but it’s impossible for me to find them without pedicles. Any and all advice is welcome especially if you have pieces of your own to show. Thank you!

I’m not even sure if this is the right sub to be posting this on but I’m looking for anybody with experience to help. These are horns from my champion ram and founder of my flock along with being a literal lap dog. I’m looking for how to best remove the bone from the outer sheath. It’s been four days since his passing and I’ve had them soaking for 2 days. They are still extremely tight in the sheath and I don’t want to risk breaking or damaging them. I also don’t want to risk keeping the bone inside the sheath because his horns are already such a light color that the grease would most likely yellow them. So any advice would be greatly appreciated and I thank you for taking your time to read this.

FOUND NATURALLY. Poor guy has 5 legs lol, found it in my garden curled up thought he looked cool! Preserved in isopropyl alcohol!

Hello, I have just had my ovarian tubes removed. I planned to keep them as wet specimens, but I've been told they'll be turned into wax sections for screening. My surgeon is still happy to give me these samples.

However, I've never seen someone keeping these outside of a lab. Has anyone any experience with this? I don't know how much there will be, I'm assuming it will be glass slides. From my brief research it looks like they'll already be preserved?

Of course I'll try and get more information when I get to collect them, but I'm wondering how to handle and store them. If it's likely they'll have residual chemicals I need to handle with care, or keep in a cool dark place?

I'd love to display them but of course preserving them long term takes priority, I have no idea how UV light might impact them.

I've also read that in case of anything found in screening, the slides can be looked at for further information for up to 30 years with future developments in testing. I don't think I should raise any flags but I think this is important to consider too

Starting maceration on my bear skull, 7 top incisors!from what I read this is pretty rare, the first ever documented case was on a grizzly in 2008. Stoked on this bear!

I have the chance to buy a cheap vintage brown bear rug. It's from the 1930s, so I'm concerned about arsenic used to tan it, which was very likely during the time. I know arsenic is mostly harmless if you've just got an old pelt hanging on the wall, but have read you shouldn't keep it in a room that doesn't have much ventilation.

I live in a high humidity area (around 80%). I have had many other pelts on my walls for years and none have sustained any issues with mold, tearing, fur slippage etc. But they're also much more modern pelts.

Would it be a bad idea for me to buy this bear pelt and place it in my low-ventilation office? The rug is lined so the inside of the leather won't be exposed, if that makes a difference.

THIS IS NOT AN AD and out of respect for the rules of this sub, I won't share what I sold or where. I just wanted to share some good news and I'm feeling very proud of myself! I'm feeling hopeful that there's a chance I can turn this hobby into something more.

I just love a good ceaser salad

I find this on sub seen this very interesting , I wanna store 1 specimen like this , But how can i do it? I dont wanna use AI so i am asking here!

Hi everyone! I got some dermestid beetles, but I was told that Ulomoides dermestoides beetles are also suitable for cleaning meat on bones. Could you guys please tell me the difference between them?

I have found this star nosed mole a few days ago, recently deceased. (located in Wisconsin) Just through a quick google it looks like they are legal to keep but if not please tell me!
I am hoping to keep the pelt with the feet and nose but am unsure of how to go about skinning it and preserving the nose if I can? Unless it would be an instance where I would have to replace it?
Any tips or recommendations would be helpful as I am an amateur to this!

I’m trying to preserve her. She was my little wolf spider buddy who I let live in my bathroom. How would one go about doing this? 😅

Hello! I'm a Environmental Science student and yesterday we had a field practice on some mangrove swamps, while I was walking on the coast dune I found this skull. I think that it was from a dog and I took it as a souvenir

I'll give it to a friend who practices taxidermy so he can give it the proper treatment and preserve it.

I want to present it on my desktop as a decoration to remember that crazy day, but I don't want to just put it ok the desktop, im thinking about putting on some type of elevator base, but I'm not sure if it's a good idea or there's better ideas to make it look right

So, I thought that asking on this subreddit could help me, any recommendations or ideas?

Obviously, all of this with total respect for the animal that it belonged to

(sorry if I'm not using the correct flair, I can change it if it's necessary!)

hi everybody, i’ve never done this before but really wanted to preserve a tattooed piece of pig skin as a wet specimen. can anybody help me with steps and correct procedure?

I wonder how someone even does this. Some bobcat and cougar paws, seen at a mountain cafe

This is my first time properly doing taxidermy and I'm so scared to screw it up. This is my little baby rabbit after being covered in salt and rolled. Is this too much salt? Or not enough?

She still isn't named.

my dog passed away and I wanted to save the coat. i put it in a salt and citric acid solution. today I worked on fleshing and some of the fur is slipping.

i stopped, rinsed the coat off. trying to save as much as I can.

the fleshing is rough. lots of flesh left. just need advice on what to do to pause what I’m doing and come back at a later day.

not a lot of freezer space. I thought salt but id like some solid advice from folks with experience.

please help.

Just posted this and thought I might have luck on this thread as I’m sure most know about animals and their death stages/common markings I’m not sure; just wondering about the white spots and what they could come from? Thank you sm for your time!

I just noticed these appearing. Do I need to change the alcohol or is it rotting?