➡I accidentally bought Balut eggs: 2 live ducks! Now a Chat Thread!

[Kiki]

I could process my injured quail tonight with the pipe cutters and report back?

Yes do it!

And I wasn't planning on doing this right now, I was going to cage them and withhold feed til morning and do it then but it just happened.
I not longer believe that withholding feed makes a difference with quail because them eating all day didn't do anything.
(I don't even know what it is supposed to do.)

 

[Molpet]

I used baling twine to make leg shackles... gets a bit messy though.

I use cheap electric tape for chickens and turkey

 

[Kiki]

I used baling twine to make leg shackles... gets a bit messy though.

I can deal with messy..the guts and blood and stuff don't bother me.
It's really just the feeling them, the touching/holding, having to feel it with me hands.

 

[BantyChooks]

Yes do it!

And I wasn't planning on doing this right now, I was going to cage them and withhold feed til morning and do it then but it just happened.
I not longer believe that withholding feed makes a difference with quail because them eating all day didn't do anything.
(I don't even know what it is suppose to do.)

Makes the guts less disastrous to nick. When I processed without withholding feed, there was some poop at the vent that was not-fun to get out of the way without it getting in the abdominal cavity.

 

[Kiki]

Makes the guts less disastrous to nick. When I processed without withholding feed, there was some poop at the vent that was not-fun to get out of the way without it getting in the abdominal cavity.

Maybe we got lucky this time.
Zero guts busted open. No poop to be seen.
I almost opened the intestines just to look but decided not too.

 

[BantyChooks]

I can deal with messy..the guts and blood and stuff don't bother me.
It's really just the feeling them, the touching/holding, having to feel it with me hands.

I don't mind that bit, but the bigger birds can really bruise you up if you hold their feet for the death throes. Ow.

 

[BantyChooks]

I'll video it tonight, and post it if I don't screw the butchering part up.

 

[Kiki]

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[sdm111]

@sdm111

didn't take long from thinking about it until tangible results

 

[Kiki]

didn't take long from thinking about it until tangible results

Tomorrow would have been exactly 8 weeks.