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[Akane]

Personally I found being knocked unconcious a very unpleasant and painful experience. Whether it's worse to have your head cut off while awake I can't say though...

I'm not entirely clear on getting the intestines and organs out either. I had someone explain the cutting up the back part. I tried it on a button I had to put down and it didn't work at all. That could just be the size of the bird I was trying to butcher though. I finally found someone willing to help me butcher quail so I plan to order 100+ eggs when I get done with this chicken hatch. They only have experience with chickens though. Maybe I'll print out the first page and see if they can understand it better than I can.

How do you store the meat in the freezer, I grew up all on prepackaged frozen stuff so I don't even know how to store meat normally, and how much space does it take? I have a stupid little stacked fridge and freezer with a pull out freezer draw so I'm actually worried how many I can keep. Whatever doesn't fit will either be pet food or the other person will take but I'd like to store enough it's worth it for me.

 

[monarc23]

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If you make sure whatever it's wrapped in is air tight it should be good

 

[Poohbear]

Which of the Quail breeds taste best and which is easiest to raise?

 

[monarc23]

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don't know which one tastes the best but Coturnix are the only one i know that are bred the most for their meat?


I'd say hands down easiest to raise is the coturnix but im bias! LOL!

 

[monarc23]

Photobucket hasnt been working for me so im using this post to see how to make my pictures work as im using imageshack for now lol

wooo hooo it worked

Okay im done lol!

 

[shelleyd2008]

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don't know which one tastes the best but Coturnix are the only one i know that are bred the most for their meat?


I'd say hands down easiest to raise is the coturnix but im bias! LOL!

I don't know about how they taste, but they are probably the easiest to raise for meat. They have a very fast grow-out rate, 18 days to incubate, 12 weeks growth for 'meat' birds. I don't think there is any other quail that grows that quickly that is big enough to mess with for food! The A&M coturnix are supposed to be all white meat, in case you have an aversion to dark meat.

 

[Buster]

We had just three quail that we processed and three people to feed with them. 1 quail wrapped well in bacon with mashed potatoes and gravy and peas was a good sized meal. We had cooked extra chicken just in case and the chicken just went into the frig for leftovers because we were all full.

 

[Bettacreek]

Once we finally process some quail, the meal that I'm really looking forward to is "quail gravy". I can make a meal for the three of us, with leftovers for the next day's lunch, with ONE chicken leg quarter, some flour, a can of corn and a few potatoes or some noodles. So, a pound of quail meat (maybe three birds) for a dinner and a lunch? Just boil your whole birds (instead of just a leg quarter, lol) in a large pot, then debone it, shred the meat, then add flour. May take more work with quail because it's a whole quail instead of just a few leg bones and ligaments and such, but still, that's THE meal that I've been looking forward to since the thought of quail meat first crossed my mind.

 

[Toast n Jelly]

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It's called spatchcocking (butterflying) Here's a video on how to do it with chicken. I don't roast birds any other way since I found this video. One suggestion is to slip thinly sliced lemons or oranges under the skin, season then roast at 400 degrees till done.

 

[AHappychick]

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you too I hate photobucket nd switched to image shack