[Help] Vulture culture

[borbponderer]

One of my rescues died last year and she has been entombed in the back of my freezer ever since. I'm looking for a more permanent method of preserving some of her essence through preserving some of her remains.

A lot of the methods for stripping and preserving a skeleton would be impractical where I live and raise too much of a stink. I was thinking of perhaps mummifying her in salt?

Any thoughts or ideas?

 

[Morell]

If you want to preserve the bones alone, the easiest way is to skin the corpse, remove all flesh you can, remove the brain too from the head, and then boil it. Then remove whatever you can and boil again. Multiple times if needed to remove every last bit of flesh. BTW do not eat the flesh, since the bird died on its own. I would maybe preserve some feathers from the wings too to be attached to the skeleton once you reassemble it if you want to...

 

[borbponderer]

If you want to preserve the bones alone, the easiest way is to skin the corpse, remove all flesh you can, remove the brain too from the head, and then boil it. Then remove whatever you can and boil again. Multiple times if needed to remove every last bit of flesh. BTW do not eat the flesh, since the bird died on its own. I would maybe preserve some feathers from the wings too to be attached to the skeleton once you reassemble it if you want to...

She was pretty sick at the time and already starting to smell bad before she died. The whole process was pretty gutting tbh. I worry that thawing and defleshing might raise too much of a smell. My upstairs neighbours are prissy young girl students who raised a massive fuss about a rat visiting the garden and already regard me with a mixture of awe and horror and fascination.

Kind of why I am thinking of transferring her frozen remains straight into box of salt and leaving her there for at least a year until she is thoroughly desiccated. There are some very ancient salt mine mummies that were discovered in Persia and which were exceptionally well preserved, so that is my line of thinking.