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[lucusLoC]

Wiki say in order to use a skeleton i need to "butcher" it. How do i go about doing this, or is the wiki inaccurate?

[NecroRebel]

You build a butcher's workshop, have a dwarf with the Butchery labor active, and (depending on whether you have automatic butchery on or not) let it be butchered or give a butcher order.

If it's the skeleton of a sapient creature, like a goblin or elf, you instead weep at your inability to perform anything meaningful with the skeleton before tossing it into a lava flow.

[lucusLoC]

nope, not sentient, i have a bunch of dead dog and lamb corpses that are rotten or skeletonized and when i queue up a butcher order it cancels saying it needs an un-rotten corpse.

[NecroRebel]

Ah. I probably should've mentioned this, as well: tamed animals must be slaughtered while alive. They cannot be butchered once they have died through other means.

[wierd]

Tame creatures have to be processed via the "slaughter" command.  They cannot be butchered like wild kills.  This is a known source of vexation.

[Urist McBeard]

Tame creatures have to be processed via the "slaughter" command.  They cannot be butchered like wild kills.  This is a known source of vexation.

Indeed! Also, sigged.

[nightwhips]

If you animate them in an evil zone, and then kill them (again), your butcher will butcher them.

[slink]

Turkey corpse corpse for dinner, dear?  Yumm ...   

[khearn]

Turkey corpse corpse for dinner, dear?  Yumm ...   

I'll bet the human traders will pay a lot for a stack of masterfully prepared turkey corpse corpse roasts. Those humans will eat anything!