"Butchering" skeletons and lungfish

[Shiranai]

Is it possible? in order to get bones.

I understand dwarfs won't butcher any sentient creature, which I'm assuming that is every corpse with a Name, however, I got a "stray yak bull skeleton" laying around in a refuse stockpile that I don't know how to "butcher".
I read on the wiki you can butcher skeletons, but I don't know how.

The same goes for lungfish. I got a few remains that I don't know how to butcher/prepare.
"Butcher an animal" and "Prepare a raw fish" will just get canceled right away.

Any clues?

[pezenwever]

Butchering and prepare raw fish are set to automatic in the standing orders, unless you changed it.
Lungfish is small vermin, so you can't do anything with them besides dumping.
When you butcher something you get the bones, hair, horn/hoof, shell, meat and tissue. Venom is a seperate thing ; you need to extract from animal for that.
Butchering only works within a certain range from your butcher workshop.

[SexyManBeast]

You can get bones from some larger vermin by using "extract from dead animal". You could maybe build a fishery workshop and see if you can get some bones from there?

Other options are setting one of your tamed animals to butcher. You could either kill or train/butcher a wild animal. Hope you get it sorted!

[Shiranai]

Yeah, no problems with butchering tame animals. Just these 2 cases I posted there.
I read on internet that you could "butcher" skeletons to get bones, but I got no luck with that so far.

[Helios]

Originally posted by Shiranai:

Is it possible? in order to get bones.

I understand dwarfs won't butcher any sentient creature, which I'm assuming that is every corpse with a Name, however, I got a "stray yak bull skeleton" laying around in a refuse stockpile that I don't know how to "butcher".
I read on the wiki you can butcher skeletons, but I don't know how.

The same goes for lungfish. I got a few remains that I don't know how to butcher/prepare.
"Butcher an animal" and "Prepare a raw fish" will just get canceled right away.

Any clues?

just setup traps that disember enemys and after limbs rot they leave bones.

[Traveller]

From what I understand you can only butcher non-sentient creatures if your dwarves kill them (and aren't mangled) or if you order a pet butchered from the animal list screen.

[Other]

A "Stray Yak Bull Skeleton" means it was livestock that died in some other way than being dragged to the butcher shop (starved, killed by wolves, and so on). Livestock that you own which die any way other than direct butchering can't be processed any more than goblin corpses can.

For meat, this is reasonable, but once the corpse rots down to a skeleton, it certainly feels like you should be able to recover the bones. If you instead had a "Yak Bull Skeleton" (which would be from a wild animal), the job you want at the butcher shop is "butcher a dead animal", and it might show up automatically depending on how your standing orders are set.