One of my Red Deer was gored by another Red Deer. Since I can't charge the other deer with the trophy fee, I get to keep the skull and antlers.

I found him in my pond. Dead as can be. We pulled him out, removed his head and threw the head back in the pond (wired to a tree).

I checked on it last week. There are about two dozen crawdads (Crayfish, crawfish, mudbugs whatever) cleaning the skull for me.

Anyone see a problem with my new cleaning method?

What shocks me the most is finding crawdads in the Panhandle! Who knew? Crawdads, Horney toads and Mule Deer don't usually inhabit the same space.

No they will do a good job, we have them here in the small streams, a friend cleaned a bison skull that way, the water and mud can darken the bone some though.