Asking price to high for guineas?

[zazouse]

I am selling mine for 5 each unsexed and the buyer must buy at least 20 , i have almost all of them penned right now, it took me 3 days to catch them all i figure there are 300 of them but i am keeping count so i know for sure.
I just do not want to process all of them, getting to old for that and my freezers are almost full and i just processed 25 yesterday .
Around here i see them selling between 8 and 15 dollars.

 

[PeepsCA]

Wow Zaz... you penned most of them all up, major chore for you I am sure!

 

[zazouse]

Wasn't that bad, just got slower as i got down to less and less to trap, but considering how many i got in the pen it turned out real good, now to process all the ones i do not sell, thats the real job.
And as luck would have it the rains have set in and i am unable to process till it lets up.

 

[PeepsCA]

Ohhh what fun, so in the meantime you get to feed them a ton of food! Bet they are pretty vocal about being penned too, lol. I'm fattening up my last 24 left over from last hatching season... the plan is to process them all at once, but I don't know if I want to do it myself... or have my mobile butcher come do it for me. I've still never done it before, and that's a lot of yuckie warm gooey guts and mess

lol.

 

[zazouse]

I don't mind butchering stuff been doing it sense i was like 8 years old helping my dad till i could do it on my own.
I was my dads boy-girl. My brother was an inside kinda kid
When i was a kid we were pretty poor , my dad worked hard at a newspaper add man but did not make alto of money so whatever i raised, some of them were for food and some were for pets.
Anyhow it is the smell i do not like, especially rabbits, takes forever to get the blood smell off when ya process all day, but i think it really just gets that smell in your nose hairs LOL and it seems to lingers

 

[PeepsCA]

LOL! Yuck! I'm super sensitive to nasty smells, lol.Thanks for the warning! I can relate to gettin' some funk on ya that you can't wash off tho... I have a nasty ol billy goat, who's constantly in rutt... and he gets his nasty stanky funk on me every time I tether him out to eat brush for me (cuz he can't go out to pasture with all my does).

I was a country kid/tomboy growing up too, but didn't get to grow up with any types of poultry or any animals raised for meat. I kinda feel like I missed out... cuz having that knowledge and experience would sure come in handy for me now

 

[trailchick]

So what do guineas taste like &
how are they baked, cooked or fryed?

I didnt know people would eat them....

 

[trailchick]

Sorry, Steven, didnt mean to hijack your thread.

I saw some go out our monthly auction for $12.
Wish you were closer to around here.

 

[Trefoil]

That's a great price for them. Have you tried craigslist? How about BestFarmBuys.com? Especially since they are adults if they got them now by the time the insects were out they could be safely allowed to range during the day. I wish I lived close, I would buy them and I don't need any more.

 

[PeepsCA]

Sorry, Steven, didnt mean to hijack your thread.

Knowin' duckie, he prolly doesn't mind, lol.

I tried Guinea for the first time last yr (I had 6 butchered to try it out)... to me they did not taste much different than Turkey does

. The white meat wasn't as white tho, and over all it was much dryer and very lean.They are supposed to taste like Pheasant (and are served in a lot of high end restaurants as Pheasant, or as African Pheasant, but I've never tried it in a restaurant.

Here's the post on how I cooked mine:

https://www.backyardchickens.com/t/582786/other-uses-for-guineas/10#post_7604929