Guess who just processed his own quail????

[Whitehouse Quail]

That's right, this guy did!

One hen about killed herself the other day slamming her head into a cage ceiling (She is the first one to do this, and here I was thinking they were boink proof.) She must have damaged her brain or spinal cord or something, because she wasn't right yesterday or today. I thought it was shock or something, but something REALLY went wrong in her head!

Anyways, I felt bad just killing her and throwing away good meat, so I figured I would bite the bullet and process her.

IT WAS EASY! I was freaking myself out, and just did it and it went great! (I just can't believe how easy her head came off, like neither of us noticed it! ) She died quick, and the only hard part was skinning her because she was kinda an old hen, so the skin was stuck on pretty good! .*.

Anyways, yes. I processed her. And she is now meat!

 

[jenjscott]

Way to go WC! It's really not so hard, and with a little practice, it goes really quick.

 

[shay20]

I am not one that would eat my own birds,

i know i know, but actully hopeing to get into meat birds soon, but anyway
as i was reading your post i could not help but to laugh as the way you worded it. LOL

 

[Whitehouse Quail]

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Glad I could give you a giggle!

 

[Nekhebet]

Congrats, glad it went well. My house had a discussion about this today, now the eating is up in the air due to processing. Guess we will see how things go lol

 

[DLS]

Yes & it gets easier.
Me & another guy processed so many quail Untill we both had a blister on out scissor finger the other day.

 

[Steve_of_sandspoultry]

Quail is one of our fav meat birds. Now that you have your "feet wet" so to speak.

The next step is buffalo quail leg 1/4s.

Steve