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Community => Marketplace => Topic started by: shearling on April 17, 2011, 05:32:27 pm

Title: animal skeleton, skulls and horns needed
Post by: shearling on April 17, 2011, 05:32:27 pm: I collect skeletons, skulls and animal horns. Please let me know if you have any for sale.
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Post by: shearling on April 24, 2011, 09:11:31 pm: meant to add I use them as part of a learning exhibition for schools.
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Post by: Fleecewife on April 25, 2011, 11:18:11 am: I have always wanted to get back a 4 horned Hebridean tup head from the abattoir just to have on the wall, but the restrictions are too tight. I do have horns but not very splendid ones and of course they are not attached to the head. Somewhere I also have a roe deer head plus antlers - we buried it as a way of cleaning it and now can't remember where the burial was....... ::)
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Post by: plumseverywhere on April 25, 2011, 01:22:59 pm: my daughters love collecting them from our field, every now and then one turns up (not from our existing flock of sheep or goats I must add!)
once I found them out on our front lawn waving a sign saying "skulls for sale" and lots of people driving past, mainly prison warders from up the road, looking most oddly at them lol.
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Post by: shearling on April 25, 2011, 01:49:20 pm: What are the restirctions?
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Post by: Rosemary on April 25, 2011, 07:49:50 pm: Quote from: plumseverywhere on April 25, 2011, 01:22:59 pm
my daughters love collecting them from our field, every now and then one turns up (not from our existing flock of sheep or goats I must add!)
once I found them out on our front lawn waving a sign saying "skulls for sale" and lots of people driving past, mainly prison warders from up the road, looking most oddly at them lol.

Love it! Try Sandy - her dog is always bringing her bits of dead animal ;D
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Post by: poppajohn on April 25, 2011, 08:00:14 pm: Watch you dont get a visit from social workers after posting that, dancing round with sheep horns was outlawed years ago! :wave:
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Post by: AengusOg on April 25, 2011, 08:28:10 pm: I have some skulls here, but my young lads are interested in them so I can't part with them. I do have a couple of spare tusks (tushies) from red deer stags, if you'd like them. In case you're not acquainted with them; they are about half an inch long and are found in the upper mandibles of the stag, situated about an inch or so in front of the first premolar. Not all stags grow them. PM me an address and I'll post them.
Title: Re: animal skeleton, skulls and horns needed
Post by: Fleecewife on April 26, 2011, 02:15:11 am: Quote from: shearling on April 25, 2011, 01:49:20 pm
What are the restirctions?
Because the skull is in close contact with the brain, cattle and sheep skulls have to be incinerated (because of spongiform encephalopathies). This used to be applied to the horns as well, but eventually it was agreed that we could get those back.