coyote

horse project

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Getting a horse skeleton ready for re-articulation is an intense process. The excitement, stimulation and overall energy pulsating from the whole process left us sore, exhausted and mentally foggy.

The following photos show a brief over view of the process. For the less faint at heart, a video of the defleshing process is available here: Horse Carving Video

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7:30am: The young Palamino died by collicking and we picked it up about 16 hours later.
10am: The Element had the trailer backed up to the horse at an angle and I pulled the horse out by the hind legs onto the trailer by my front tow hooks.
10:30am: We drove up into National Forest out of the public's eye. It took about 8 hours to deflesh the entire horse.
8pm: Here is the ribcage and vertebrae intact. This was the hardest piece to get into the freezer.
8:30pm: 9 bags of bones, plus the vertebra. Not much of the 1100 pound horse is left.
10pm: Unfortunately, the head didn't fit in the garage freezer, so here it sits with the popsicles and frozen green beans.

release.