To me, feeding good food to the dogs isn't wasteful. I'd rather see them eat it than have it go into the garbage. They need good food too!
And they helped me with the quail - they cleaned up every piece of meat that would have been trashed including the head, skin (with feathers!) and insides.
Sally, I hope you've managed to do the deed as I see this post is over a year old. I killed birds for the first time yesterday - quail, but still. What sent me over the edge from wanting my BIL to come kill them to just getting it over with? Poop. He couldn't come until next weekend and I'm...