My quail died of stress. Should I eat her?

[CovidtimeQuail]

I never thought I'd ever ask this question. She was alive last night. This morning, she is dead. I'm 99% sure it was the stress that got her. She was moved several times, there was a rehoming with new birds, then a separation back to the two others in her flock, but in a new pen. What do you guys think? Should she be eaten or thrown out? She is as hard as a rock, no warmth left.

 

[TheOddOneOut]

I never thought I'd ever ask this question. She was alive last night. This morning, she is dead. I'm 99% sure it was the stress that got her. She was moved several times, there was a rehoming with new birds, then a separation back to the two others in her flock, but in a new pen. What do you guys think? Should she be eaten or thrown out? She is as hard as a rock, no warmth left.

Don’t eat her.
She wouldn’t taste good.

 

[HuffleClaw]

Well, since there’s no way of truly knowing... I wouldn’t eat her. I honestly probably wouldn’t eat anything that was found dead and not butchered for eating purposes. But that is just me.

 

[TheOddOneOut]

Well, since there’s no way of truly knowing... I wouldn’t eat her. I honestly probably wouldn’t eat anything that was found dead and not butchered for eating purposes. But that is just me.

This, too.

 

[MissMonty]

I probably wouldn't. A bird doesn't die of "stress" usually stress can cause the door to be open for other things tho like illness. Also since she was out until she was hard as a rock I'd imagine the meat may have spoiled in that time.

 

[CovidtimeQuail]

I threw her out. That also felt weird -- usually, with pets, there is a burial of some sort, a ritual of closure. These quail aren't exactly pets, but they aren't exactly anonymous supermarket poultry either.

 

[Windestroychickybirbs]

I never thought I'd ever ask this question. She was alive last night. This morning, she is dead. I'm 99% sure it was the stress that got her. She was moved several times, there was a rehoming with new birds, then a separation back to the two others in her flock, but in a new pen. What do you guys think? Should she be eaten or thrown out? She is as hard as a rock, no warmth left.

"Should I eat her"
Possibly the funniest question in BYC
Obviously not, well actually, I don't recommend it, maybe it carries a disease , I just don't recommend it, just bury it , maybe a cat will eat it ,but cats are immune to expired food

 

[Appalachickens]

I'm sure that was difficult and I don't mean to make light of having an animal die, but I admit I laughed out loud when I saw the title of this post.

 

[Susan Skylark]

I heard a retired state vet speak once, wish i could mimic the accent, the way he ended his tale of a family eating a suddenly dead cow was quite memorable, ‘and da whole family got anthrax,’ yeah don’t eat anything that you don’t know what killed it. Fever, toxic shock, and infection make the meat nasty. You could even pick up an exciting disease. And it is just not appetizing.

I saw a show once about a restaurant that served horse (Canada I think) and bragged their horses had died of ‘natural causes.’ A broken leg maybe but old or colic, ugh!

I understand people not wanting to waste things but one quail (or those people that want to eat infertile eggs out of the incubator) isn’t going to make a huge difference in the grand scheme of things, especially if you have access to the resources to post online.

 

[AGeese]

I would prepare a funeral pyre so that you're not spreading anything to wildlife.