Am I doing something stupid

[SandraMort]

I've got this planned... find and build hutches, borrow the bator from the inlaws, set up a batch of coturnix for eggs and meat, researched the license, I've got it all planned... except for one thing. I've never actually *TASTED* quail or quail eggs. Is this going to be a big mistake?

 

[thekid]

nope unless your allergic to the eggs

 

[Whitehouse Quail]

Well, the eggs taste the same as chickens, albeit a little smaller... and as for taste, more people will chime in about bobwhite vs. coturnix, but you should like it if you like chicken!

 

[pringle]

I tried coturnix meat for the first time about a week ago,I had too many males and needed to butcher a couple.I fried it up a bit,put it in the oven with bacon on it on real low and made gravy out of the drippings (although there was a seriously small amount of dripping from the quail).Also made biscuits and potatoes with it too.It had a livery-gamey taste but just enough to enjoy it-kinda like deer meat.

 

[aprophet]

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Ya might try koshering them ie soaking them in brine overnight or 2 I use a table spoon of salt to a pint of water

 

[SandraMort]

>It had a livery-gamey taste but just enough to enjoy it-kinda like deer meat.

Sounds like something that could easily hide in chili or another spicy dish, if not good as is.

> When life gives you lemons you throw them back and ask for a cookie!

Considering my tagline, this made me laugh.

 

[SandraMort]

Kashering's more complicated than that, that would be brining. But yes, that would help remove some of the stronger flavor and make it more moist, if it's anything like turkey. Does that ratio work well for quail?

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[SandraMort]

>It had a livery-gamey taste but just enough to enjoy it-kinda like deer meat.

BTW - which coturnix quail were these? A&M white or the brown ones?

 

[Dunkopf]

I thought people raised Quail to sell to those places that hunters go to train their retrievers. Do people actually eat the eggs? I thought about raising them because a guy I know that is a shooter at retriever competitions said the birds cost about 15.00 each. You can hatch like 300 in a Sportmens incubator.

 

[mtc]

Before I made my final decision, I bought some quail out of the frozen section of the supermarket. I've had the eggs, that wasn't the issue, but I remembered the birds as being kind of a pain to clean and wanted to make sure I liked the meat well enough to bother.

I do. They're alot like an all dark meat chicken in flavor (I think). You might have needed to bled them out more thoroughly if they were on the gamey side.