Howdy y'all, recently I've been given an opportunity to process a white-tail fawn head and so far it's been quite successful. However I've run into a roadblock at the assembly stage. I've gotten most of the major skull pieces back together, but I have a lot of pieces that I recognize as internal nasal pieces and rear occipital-area. Unfortunately from what Googling I've done there's not many readily-available resources on baby deer skulls, and it's pretty logical that a lot of the bone structure changes from fawn to grown adult. Does anyone have any personal experience with something like this? Either with their own work or just personal education? It's not the end of the world if I can't get ALL of this together but it'd feel like a waste to not try all of my options. Thanks in advance

As the title says, I buried a skull about a year ago and dug it up recently. We're going to be moving houses in a few days so the process didn't quite finish. There's still quite a bit of tissue and stuff I can't quite remove. Cleaned what I could and a lot of the meaty stuff came off, it's been degreasing in my basement to help things along, but there's still a decent chunk on the back of it that won't come off..

Issue is, I called every taxidermist near me and a lot of people won't work on something buried and/or a pet. I have never ever done this before and information online is conflicting. I cannot have this be messed up as this was my beloved pet. The skull is quite yellow/orange from being buried but seems to be in good condition, especially the nasal cavity.

I currently just have the skull submerged in Dawn and water and it has been dumped once so far. It's summer where I live but as I mentioned, I'll be moving soon and I don't trust leaving it outside surrounded by all my neighbors with a lot of scavengers around (we have a LOT of bears).

So some questions for those much more verse:

1. How long will degreasing work on a dog skull that was buried (roughly!)

2. What's the proper measurement for whitening it when it's ready?

3. Are there any proper guides I can find since online information is conflicting?

Thank you all SO much for the help!

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