Looking for a small lung scrapper.

[yardbird tx]

I raise Texan Pioneer pigeons. They are a utility breed of pigeon. Here is what they look like:

I do my own butchering and have always used a long fingernail to scrape the lung material from the rib cage. Then I saw this tool the lung scraper http://www.meyerhatchery.com/get_item_clung_chicken-size-lung-remover-11.htm

My pigeons dress out at la little better than a pound thats at four weeks old. This tool would be grate if I could find one that is a little smaller. Do they make on for quail?

 

[RuffTuffCreampuff]

Someone on this board post a few days ago, that they use strawberry huller...they just bend the head alittle at the same angle as the one in your link.

Love your birds!!

Pam

 

[Imp]

yardbird tx,
Here's the link. The tool is commonly know in the food service industry as a tomato shark. Very cheap to purchase, although may be a little tough to find.

https://www.backyardchickens.com/forum/viewtopic.php?id=184535

Imp

 

[yardbird tx]

Wow thanks soooo much.

 

[yardbird tx]

I know I may be a little out of place here. But as far as raising utility birds there is really no other place for me to go. If you think that not many people raise chickens for meat these days you should try to find someone that raises pigeons for meat.

I do have chickens also I keep about ten people at work stocked up with eggs. One thing I love about the Texan Pioneer pigeons is that they not only make a grate utility bird they are a grate show bird as well as you can see here.

I didn't put this thread in the pigeon section. Last time I posted about squabing pigeons on a pigeon forum I thought they where going to linch me.

Few people realize that the utility pigeon helped countless families survive during the grate depression.

So if you have any question please don't hesitate to ask. And thanks again.

Joe This is me with a young cock bird, next year breeder:

 

[Imp]

Ok, posting about eating pigeons Ok with me.

But posting a pix wearing camo- that deserves lynching.

Just kidding! I almost hate to ask this question, but here goes.

What does pigeon taste like? Never have tried it.

Imp-I'm not a fashion loser- I'm fashion lost.

 

[yardbird tx]

Very dark meat. Taste just like the white wing dove that we hunt in the fall. But the pigeon of course has much more meat (bigger bird). Cooked right it has a red wine colored juice and tender meat. But if you over cook it it taste like liver, 20 minuets in the oven at 400 dose the trick. My favorite way to cook them is to breast out the bird. Wrap the breast in beacon and grill till the bacon is crisp. Good stuff.

 

[WalkingWolf]

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It tastes like chicken

We used to live on Big Pine Key, FL. I was a behind WD while a tourist was watching for key deer with her camera when she saw a bum take crackers from the dumpster and feed them to the pigeons. She exclaimed "how sweet he is feeding the little darlings". We laughed and told her no lady he is just fattening them up.

 

[RuffTuffCreampuff]

DH and I have talked about pigeons, so I have a couple of questions. At what age do you butcher them? And do the hatching eggs ship well?

Thanks...Pam

Oh and how much living space per bird...lol?

 

[Imp]

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Hmm.. Like dark meat. Gonna keep an eye out in the local farmer markets- sounds like it might be worth a try.

Imp- I like liver too.

Thanks for answering