Sheepshead, bullhead and shad. Entire fish but no guts

I did that in a sealed five gallon bucket years ago. I went out of town and buried it a couple feet deep in sand. When I went back to check it a couple years later it had been dug up and the bucket was broken up around the top. I don't know if it was dogs or coyotes that got into it. I planned on dumping it in several brushy places for draw stations to snare coyotes. What is your planned use for it?

I want a thick paste from it because its something I want to try.
Got to cool off some before I open it

Here....hold my beer!

Probably going need some when I open the barrel.

I do this with skulls and it works great. Toss the whole critter skull in a bucket or barrel, fill with water and let it soak all summer. Cleans the bones/antlers/skulls right up. Sure its smells but ive smelt worse.

I didn't added anything just whole skunks toss in barrel hopingbitvwould break down to
A paste i can use.we will see
Been in barrel along time.
5 years on more now

Did you open it this morning? I walked out on my deck this morning here in Utah and I think I smelled it.

I would run everything thru a tea strainer its just a tight screen mesh bowl use a wooden spoon to help it thru put into clean glass jars and let the cream and juice separate after a couple days pour off the juice and stabilize seperate from the cream there shouldnt be any meat still in there just juice and an oil slick cream

T73 let us know how it comes out. I'm curious now to hear after 5 years in a sealed barrel.

What are you stabilizing juice with.should I stabilize cream too.
And what color do both suppose to look like.

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Sounds like a good Additive to morning coffee!

Let us know how it tastes.
Seriously, I bet it will be attractive to animals. Especially since you left the pods on.

Try it on ice cream.

The oil on top will likely made a decent lure.

Keith

both the juice and the oil/cream have a place in formulating lures and baits
whats left over can be used as a bait station but i promise you the buzzards will zone in on it (the scraps from the barrel) i would instead put in a neighbors mailbox

Do me a favor before you open it up. Make sure the prevailing wind is coming from the north. We don't have skunks in this past of Virginia yet, and I couldn't be happier about not having to smell those vile creatures.

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Have a buddy open it and take a video. Extra points if you don't tell him what is in the barrel.