Caught by my friend's cat in March and frozen until 27/09/2016
Method: Mixed
Recovered: 21/03/2017
Method: Mixed
Recovered: 21/03/2017
I decided that, as I have three, I should use different methods of preparation to process each mouse and then compare the results.
The first mouse was put into a tupperware tub with holes poked into it, and left at the end of the garden.
The first mouse was put into a tupperware tub with holes poked into it, and left at the end of the garden.
The second mouse was put into a tupperware tub, which was then filled with fresh soil and left open in the garden.
The third mouse was covered in maize-meal in a cardboard box and left in the attic.
Recovering the bones from the tub without soil in it was quite difficult. Mouse fur does not eat eaten by the insects that eat the flesh, as I was left with all the hair in a big sticky sludge. All I was able to retrieve from the sludge was the jaw bone.
Recovering the bones from the tub with the soil in was much more successful. Although I was unable to retrieve the back of the skull, which means that this new skull matches the skull from my first mouse where the skull broke during cleaning.
Recovering the mummified mouse was easy, it just required dusting off the corn flour.
Recovering the bones from the tub with the soil in was much more successful. Although I was unable to retrieve the back of the skull, which means that this new skull matches the skull from my first mouse where the skull broke during cleaning.
Recovering the mummified mouse was easy, it just required dusting off the corn flour.