How do you sanitize animal bones?

Answer 1

to preserve animal bones you can cook them (boiling water), you can use beatles and to finish it off after they are clean you can use a mix of half laquer and half laquer thinner or half whit glue, half water.

Answer 2

There are actually companies that sepcialize in cleaning animal bones, but you can also leave them in an exposed place in the sun where animals will not carry them off and the bugs and sun will clean and bleach them for you. However, I personally, would be careful when handling animal bones due to the bacteria and germs which could be present.

Answer 3

You want to remove any excess tissue, hide, material and dust from the bones

first. (If there is a lot of "gunk" left on it, you might want to consider letting dermestid beetles

or ants remove it for you.)

Next, put the bone

in a container of water (no chemicals) somewhere warm where the smell won't bother you. When the water gets really yucky and smelly (a few days to a week), dump it out an replace it with new water. Keep doing this until the water stops getting yucky. What happens is bacteria start growing in the water and "clean" the bone for you. When the water stays clear, the bacteria have finished.

To sterilize the bone and get the "bleached-white" look - soak it in hydrogen peroxide until it is at the whiteness you want. (Real bleach or other harsh chemicals will ruin your bone). You can also put it in the sun to bleach it, but beware, some animals (like mice) may run off with your bone and the sun generally takes longer.

Just an extra word of caution - many states have protected species laws that prohibit you from having any piece of those animals (feathers, bones, etc). Make sure the skeleton doesn't belong to such an animal or you could get into a lot of trouble.

Answer 4

Bleach em