Might seem like a strange question....

[Yashca 0]

Hi everyone. I have recently been posting on the deer management board asking about what happens to deer heads when people go hunting. The reason for this is that I am a Primary School teacher in North Yorkshire and my class is doing a topic about British Wildlife. I own one roe deer skull and one fox skull that I cleaned up myself that I brought in to show the kids - and they loved them!

 

At the moment all of the children are choosing a certain animal to do a project on - basically a little booklet about their animal. A lot of the children wanted to do about the different species of deer, and wanted to see their skulls as well as the one roe skull I have, so I asked on the deer forum if anyone had any spare deer heads that I might be able to have to clean up for my class. I have an offer of some deer heads from there.

 

I wondered if anyone on this board had any spare animal heads that I could clean up, such as Weasel, Stoat, Mink errr... Mole... don't know if there is anything else you could suggest that the children might want to see. Or if anyone here has any deer heads either.

 

Please let me know if you have anything like this that you have spare or don't want. I would be very appreciative.

[stubby 175]

I can send you a frozen mole complete, you'd need to skin/gut etc, depending how long the post takes, may be a little pongey time it gets to you

[Yashca 0]

I can send you a frozen mole complete, you'd need to skin/gut etc, depending how long the post takes, may be a little pongey time it gets to you

 

That would be fantastic. Someone on the deer board said that mole skulls were really interesting. Where did you get a complete mole? Is the entire skeleton likely to be complete? Or if it has been trapped is their likely to be broken bones? Doesn't really matter if their is, the skull is the interesting thing really.

 

Thank you for the offer.

[stubby 175]

yes, it was caught by me, will probably have a few crushed bones, but skull intact

 

Ive found you can skin and keep the mole skin, but it needs doing fairly quickly after its thawed out, otherwise the fur seems to fall out the hide

you'll probably be able to get your hands on some sort of solution for this (working in school) from science labs?

 

 

[Yashca 0]

The skull is the thing I am most interested in, but I'd have a go at doing something with the pelt. I do have various chemicals at my disposal.

 

Thanks for getting back to me.

[MR TEA POT 1,287]

I have a ferrets skull somewhere if its any good for you.

[peeps_76 17]

rabbit skulls are easy to get. sometime they have holes in em! but there would be plenty guys here that could get you them. mice and rats and voles are also easy to get if you know anyone with cats!!

 

kind regards P

[comanche 2,941]

Rabbit skulls should be easy to come by. Just stroll along hedgerows that have burrows under them and you'll often spot skulls . Failing that ,chaps who do a lot of ferreting come across them all the time . I have one in my van. My mate put it in my glove-box for a joke . The way a rabbit's teeth keep growing like curved chisels and need wearing-down by constant use to avoid actually curling back into the animals face is just the sort of gruesome stuff kids love !

[stubby 175]

is it me, or did all those that offered skulls, expect an address by now, 6 days later and nothing sometimes wonder why I bother

[Yashca 0]

is it me, or did all those that offered skulls, expect an address by now, 6 days later and nothing sometimes wonder why I bother

 

I'm really sorry, I thought I'd pm'd you with my address. I'll send it now.