Same for me by myself with quail…..and that’s skinning vs pluckerThat's not bad at all. It takes me about 10 minutes per quail including cleaning the plucker and scaldnig pot etc. That's by myself, though.


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Same for me by myself with quail…..and that’s skinning vs pluckerThat's not bad at all. It takes me about 10 minutes per quail including cleaning the plucker and scaldnig pot etc. That's by myself, though.
I would do chickens and rabbits and what not but quail is really the only thing I can sustainably raise for meat in a apartment I am totally planning on it later in life but right now it’s only quail. It took me about 10 minutes each per bird to skin and gut after I got myself to cut their heads off. I know I will get better in time as it was my first two birds.Same for me by myself with quail…..and that’s skinning vs pluckerpart of the reason I don’t do quail anymore for “sustainability” as other meats (meat chickens, rabbits, etc) have much higher yield for similar processing time. If ours weren’t free range pasture-raised…..we could probably shave off a couple minutes per chicken.
Yes, it’s difficult to raise other meats in a small space. And you will get better with practice making it even easier and more efficient once you move on to other meats!I would do chickens and rabbits and what not but quail is really the only thing I can sustainably raise for meat in a apartment I am totally planning on it later in life but right now it’s only quail. It took me about 10 minutes each per bird to skin and gut after I got myself to cut their heads off. I know I will get better in time as it was my first two birds.
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I butchered both Roos and hens because I was supposed to sell them to someone but they never got back to me and then no one else wanted them and I have chicks hatching this week so I needed the brooder.I butchered 8 this morning. I accidentally included a hen. :-(
https://www.backyardchickens.com/threads/name-these-guts.1594814/Oh my.. that looks like a science experiment.![]()