I was thinking about trying to mount a small bird like a English Sparrow using DP on the skin and just use clay for the body. I'd skin around the beak and then boil the skull and then put clay around that so the beak stuck out when when the skin was pasted back on. Then could you use the original legs and how to preserve them?

Plinker

You can use some of the many liquid presrevatives offered by the supply companys and inject it with syringe.

Ive had good luck with turkey legs(making foul fingers)by just soaking them 3 days in a mixture of 1 1/2 cups 20 Mule Team Borax to a gallon of water. Rinse well when you remove them and the borax keeps them from stinking.

Thanks much for both replies. I may try to borax if it will work i have some on hand and the legs are so small.

Plinker