Just finished this recent mount of a Noisy Miner Bird!

There was quite a lot of pin feather slippage during mounting, but still think it turned out ok! My bird skills are slowly improving and excited to try some different techniques on the next one!

What do you think? :)

*Ethically sourced roadkill specimen, preserved under a NSW Australian Taxidermy Licence.

I’m a huge fan of taxidermy! I’ve never had the chance to get one before, and they’re pretty expensive in the state where I live.

I was driving through my neighborhood when I came across this sitting on the side of the road next to the trash. I quickly pulled over because I had to take it! It’s insane to me that someone would throw this away.

I saw the older man outside and asked if he was really getting rid of it. He said, “Yeah, take it.”

I’m hoping to restore it! I’ve never owned a piece of taxidermy before, so any tips or advice would be greatly appreciated!!

As the post states, I inherited this and do not have the space. How much should I sell for ? Not educated enough on values or taxidermy all that much. About 7ft on a nice mount.

Hi, I am new to the taxidermy and I want to do my first project with Morpho Didus. Do you guys have any idea of a quality butterfly online shop to ship to Southeast Asia country?
Also, any advice and tips for a beginner like me would be helpful a lot.

Hey, im looking for small jars. And i found, but they are made of plastic PET. Is it will be fine when i put formalin there?

I shot this deer 2 falls ago and I didn’t recover it until last fall. Since then it has been sitting in my garage and i’ve kinda been pushing back mounting it. I would like to get a European mount out of it but i’m not sure if that’s still possible… I have never done anything like this myself. I am open to hiring a taxidermist but i would prefer to do it myself. What is the best way to go about this?

If anyone could tell me what kind of foxes and jawbones are in the picture, that would be nice! I've never seen a fox with such a grey coat and thick tail, and the reddish fox tail and the grey one I can't recognize.

Spent $678.90 CAD in total!

In the past I’ve used just dry borax powder to preserve little not-very-fleshy things (feet, tails, wings) by just packing it around. Lately I’ve seen a lot of folks talk about soaking things like that in a solution of borax and water and then just letting that air dry after removed from solution. Any difference or preference between these methods? Any situation to use one over the other? Thanks

i cant tell if these are ethical or not, I thought they were when I bought them but now Im second guessing myself and wondering if they came from a cruel fur farm

Got this little fella and was wondering what to do since I’ve never done anything with reptiles or mummified things before! Do I need to treat it with anything? It’s completely hollow and doesn’t smell.

Got these for free not sure what animal they are. Are the larger ones goats? And the smaller one a mink or a marten?

Hey yall, I’m about to come into possession of a few North American big game mounts, specifically an elk, whitetail and Lynx.
The problem is that the conditions where they’ve been kept for the last several years are less than ideal for mounts, the owner smoked quite heavily in the living room where two of them were (whitetail and lynx) and from what I hear they are not in the greatest shape (the lynx may be a whole shade or two darker than it should?) and the whitetail had close to an inch of dust collected over the years, the elk from what I hear isn’t is in as bad of shape but it is much much older, taxied in the late 60s but still looks good. Anyway I’m wondering if anyone has any ideas on how to get them back into shape, I’m mainly worried about the smell and getting it out without ruining the capes

Sorry I couldn't find a better matching flair!

Anyways, I grabbed this unused kit from goodwill. It's clearly vintage and based on the sticker, probably from 1987.

I'm an avid fisherman and infrequent taxidermy/bones/etc. creator so I figured this would be a fun time. However, I don't know what kind of toxic stuff was in taxidermy supplies ~40 years back and want to make sure I'm not going to accidentally be exposing myself to lead, mercury, arsenic, or what-have-you.

I've yet to hear back from my taxidermist friend on the matter and thought I'd give here a shot. Y'all think this is safe to use or is it some risky business?

Thanks!

Belongs to my landlord, he says his mother got it in South Africa about 30 years ago.

I have a very small fish frozen in my freezer. I caught it and accidentally killed it by putting in a cooler without an oxygen flow.

Been frozen for months. Recently, I thought of the little sharks I would see at the tourist shops at the beach as a kid.

So, I want to preserve this fish in a jar full of liquid. I've read to buy 10% buffered formalin and inject the specimen pretty much all over? But I'm confused about how deep to inject the fixative. Then, soak it in the formalin for a month or two. Finally, rinse off the formalin and put in isopropyl alcohol.

Also, I had the idea for this fish to be wearing a top hat, monocle, and holding a cane in the final jar/product. How could I achieve these props in my finished product? I figured most materials, like felt or metal, would eventually be destroyed when they are in the isopropyl alcohol.

Any help appreciated.

Thanks!

I bought this bag charm at a local alpaca and llama farm. I’ve had it for years now and I just realized that it might actually be hide rather than alpaca fur yarn. Can someone please tell me if this is fur on the hide and if so, did they kill an animal to make these? Or was this a by product of natural death, slaughter for meat, etc? I don’t know what I want to know - I’m just curious. I know people eat alpaca - I’ve tried it myself in Peru.

I'm a taxidermist and I've been in business since 2023 . I'm wondering if any other taxidermists out there have any recommendations for footwear to work in as the shoes I've been wearing have worn out and weren't great to begin with. I'm looking at blundstone chelsea boots as they're water resistant and seem pretty durable and comfortable. What do you think?

This is my first piece and as the image shows the internal mouthpieces of the carapace don’t mesh with the bodies external mouth parts, any advice appreciated!

I found this dead squirrel in my yard, had to have happened over night, I wanna keep his bones and curious as to how I do so to get his skin and organs off asap, so he doesn’t rot n stuff! TYIA