7 Animal Bone Cleaning Service Success Stories [2024]

Pat Walls

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Updated: November 19th, 2023

Start An Animal Bone Cleaning Service

The pristine-looking skeletons you see in museums or bright white skulls hanging from walls are real animal bones and skulls that were cleaned and preserved.

Cleaning animal bones may sound boring! But do you know that animal skulls and bones is a profitable business? Animal bones and skulls are not only a good display for residential and commercial places, but they are also a good teaching tool. Your clients can be hunters, anatomy professionals, conservationists, and pet lovers.

Therefore, starting a bone cleaning and bleaching business can be a great business.

Here are some real life success stories of starting a animal bone cleaning service:

1. Dermestidarium ($24K/year)

Carla Brauer, the founder of Dermestidarium, came up with the idea of using flesh-eating beetles to clean animal bones after attempting to clean a goat skull during an internship at a goat meat ranch. Despite initial doubts from others, word spread about her unique business and she has since grown her client base, been featured in various media outlets, and even gave a TEDx talk on her journey.

How much they make: $24K/year
Current team size: 1

How I Started A Successful Side Business Cleaning Animal Skulls

Dermestidarium is a successful side business that uses flesh-eating beetles to clean animal bones for display, started by Carla Brauer who had no hopes of it turning into a business, but grew it into a busy side-hustle and more recently a primary work with client base growing each year.

About

Carla started Dermestidarium over 10 years ago

Revenue

Carla grew the business to $2K/month

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4. Dogs Naturally

Dedicated to ethics and integrity in every aspect of our publications and courses, Dogs Naturally is your complete resource for natural canine health care.

Website traffic: 820K/month

5. Petside

PetSide is a premium resource online for detailed product reviews, helpful tips and actionable guides in caring for your pet.

Where they're located: El Paso, Texas, USA

So... can you actually make money with a animal bone cleaning service?

Of course. There are millions to be made in this industry.

But how?

Research real, profitable businesses and see exactly how much money they make.
Study exactly what works, and what doesn’t.
Take action, because now you have the roadmap.

Join Starter Story and build your next big thing:

Start Now

7. hideandfur.com

The West's Leading Fur House. On-line catalog of wildlife products: Antlers, Buckskin, Rawhide, Tanned Furs, Teeth, Claws, Skulls, Bones, Feathers and more for Native American Crafts, Muzzleloading, Mountain Men, Taxidermists, and more

Website traffic: 90K/month