Hi ! I found you through your slow cooker skull cooking tutorial and I was wondering if it would work on a really tiny rat ? Almost mouse sized rat ? I picked it up while hiking and it’s my first time doing taxidermy ! that method looks the easiest for a beginner, but I’m worried the bones are too tiny : ( if you don’t think it’ll work can you suggest another method to get some nice looking bones / skull

vultureculturecoyote:

I’m sorry I didn’t answer this earlier. I’m on a trip to Florida right now.

I wouldn’t recommend using the slow cooker for something that small, no. I did it on a blue tit and the skull essentially disintegrated. For something that small I would use a more natural decomp method.

Maybe start by putting the whole animal in a small bucket with some grass shavings, maybe woodchips, and leaving it out in the sun in a warm place. Put some screen or chicken wire over the bucket so that crows and other scavangers don’t take it. Or You can leave the lid on the bucket (but don’t seal it air tight). You want the bugs to be able to get in. Try to keep it moist but not wet. Pour a bit of water in the bucket just enough so that it soaks into the woodchips/dirt/grass. Leave it like that for a week and check up on it occasionally.

Ants! They’re no good for something this small if you want all the bones, they’ll steal the finger bones and the teeth, but a big active anthill is great for sq.uirrel size and up. You want to cage the dead thing in with mesh so nothing else steals it.

mamoru:

explanatorypower:

quite-quirksome:

mamoru:

good homeopathy: i use lavender because it smells nice and helps me sleep

bad homeopathy: i use lavender and it smells so nice that i stop getting vaccinated

good homeopathy: increasing fruit and green leafy vegetables in my child’s diet might help them beat leukemia

bad homeopathy: chemotherapy drugs are full of toxic chemicals so I’m gonna cleanse my child with this tea for 2 weeks

Yall sound like elitist assholes who spend more time judging people they dont know than they do researching substances

I am terminally ill and venting about salespeople that try to scam me and my friends at medical conventions but go off

prancingtrashcan:

cynicowl:

randomdaisy:

limbovulture:

@randomdaisy dear herbologist what the fok is this corn dog plant

OH MY GOODNESS I SAW THIS ON TWITTER AND I WAS LIKE “OH NO…. DUDE… DUDE NO”

this plant is, in fact, a cattail (Typha genus, probably either Typha latifolia or Typha angustifolia). what’s ironic about this person’s encounter is that almost every single part of the cattail is edible– the rhizomes are starchy and, although tough, can be made into a nutritious flour; the stems can be peeled and used like asparagus; the pollen can be gathered and used to extend or supplement flour; and even the green flower spikes can be boiled and eaten like corn-on-the-cob, so this person sort of had the right idea.

the thing is, what this person has in their photo is a BROWN flower spike, meaning that it’s starting to go to seed and is probably a tasteless mouthful of either fiber or fluff. regardless of whether the post is a joke or serious, out of all the edible parts of the cattail, op managed to pick one of the ONLY parts of the plant that isn’t. and i still can’t get over that.

As a side note, rubbing that part of the plant makes an absolutely ridiculous amount of fluff come out (which is how it disperses the seeds). I highly recommend it but it’s probably best to do that when no one else is around

image

are you saying i can jack off this plant and it will nut

More that you can jack off this plant and it will avalanche babies everywhere.

loki-against-onision:

al-the-stuff-i-like:

slightly-fanatic:

guardgenie:

charlesoberonn:

01101111-01101111-01100100:

sanjista:

bbanditt:

chongthenomad:

so my family went to the tulip fields and my little sister didn’t have a good time at all

WHY IS THAT ONE FUCKING TULIP A DIFFERENT COLOR I WOULD BE UPSET TOO

it is the chosen one

it must be the main character in the anime

It got funnier when I realized just how many tulips are in this picture.

“In a world where tulips were yellow, one dared to be different…”

Every spring this picture comes back around and every spring I crack up

at first you just see the row of tulips in the foreground, and it’s funny

then you see the rows stretching back for yards and yards, and it’s even funnier

I’ve waited months to see this on my dash