Quail meat

[LocoPollo]

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Sweet! That's awesome. Thanks!

 

[monarc23]

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You processed 10 of them for dinner? Oh wow. I eat my chickens but I may have a
hard time culling my cute little quailies.

sure did, 10 excess males. No one would buy em so dinner plate they went.

They are adorable pets but theres no way I was keeping 10 extra male quail around lol!

 

[PurpleChicken]

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You processed 10 of them for dinner? Oh wow. I eat my chickens but I may have a
hard time culling my cute little quailies.

sure did, 10 excess males. No one would buy em so dinner plate they went.

They are adorable pets but theres no way I was keeping 10 extra male quail around lol!

As I did with culling chickens I'm going to have to teach myself how to cull quail. Any
suggestions are apreciated.

 

[monarc23]

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sure did, 10 excess males. No one would buy em so dinner plate they went.

They are adorable pets but theres no way I was keeping 10 extra male quail around lol!

As I did with culling chickens I'm going to have to teach myself how to cull quail. Any
suggestions are apreciated.

Yeah I really didn't want to cull them, I advertised them locally wherever I could but only had a few people even slightly interested and they never contacted me again. I could have just GAVE them away for free, but they could have been culled by whoever took them so I decided to just use them myself.

Being a "young woman" culling animals people are stunned to find out I do it,a nd they don't seem to understand how i can be against abuse, and such an animal lover, yet I hunt, fish and cull animals for meat.

I've just learned over the years to disassociate myself with pet and meat. Pets can become meat, as well as meat animals can become pets. Just depends on various factors which you and many others on here know all too well.

I culled the 10 quail with a sharp blow to the back of the head with a very blunt/heavy handheld branch. It knocked them unconcious long enough for me to quickly cut off their heads. They still flapped some but obviously just nerves...I bled them out for a bit putting their bodies upside down on some cage wire and just let them drip out...while I culled the rest. After they bled out, I took them one by one and quickly ripped out the crop (i didnt fast them so their crops were full) which took BARELY any effort, and much of the skin was ripped off too by then I snipped off the feet at the "knees" and the wings (not enough meat on them to keep them) by taking off the feet and the wings, it made skinning easily. I didnt even need to pluck...just grasped a ton of feathers and pulled and the skin basically came off like a suit. Their skin is amazingly delicate, it's no wonder they survive life in general being as delicate as they are! wow is all I can say.

Then with just a simple pair of scissors I snipped right below the rib cage on the left and right side, then I stuck my fingers in and pulled down towards their pelvic bone...which took out all their organs except their lungs, heart and esophogus which I just easily pulled out with my fingers after I had the intestines and what not in the "gross baggie' LOL!

I was talking to my aunt today that is a chief in Maryland and she was telling me what she thought of quail and quail eggs. I asked her if she thought too that the meat held in every flavor it was cooked with and I asked her why that is if so. She agreed they do and said something that I should have realized all along "they are such thiny fleshed birds that it's easy for the meat to absorb the flavors".

was a "oh duh!" moment for me but atleast now it's not a mystery.

 

[monarc23]

I also wanted to add, that I had been aware of another method for culling such tiny birds...called "pigeon pulling" I don't reccomend it for anyone. I've seen it done and i think it's really cruel (least I think it is). What they do is hold the bird in their one hand...with the other take the head, and they just PULL the head off the body!!! Bird alive...so sad.

I knock them unconcious so I personally feel better about culling them. I hit them so hard, I'm almost positive they're dead anyhow,but i am still quick about it after I hit them in the head I immediatly take off the head. This is all in hopes that they don't feel a thing. I did just try with one of the quail by just quickly chopping off the head but the nerves were in so much shock from that that i got blood all over me...not nice and I just felt bad that maybe the bird felt pain so I continued after that to just knock them unconcious first. Everyone has their own methods, and I really am comfortable with this one...it's also how i cull rabbits as Im not strong enough to break a 5lb rabbits neck...so a blunt object to the back of the head first is much more humane for me to work with.

 

[PurpleChicken]

We culled 3 today after culling 5 chickens. We used a pair of surgical scissors,
the kind that will cut through a penny, and with a quick cut, removed the head.

We already had the scalder heated up so we dipped them for 10 to 20 seconds.
The feathers came right off so we didn't skin them. The rest of the process was
so simple and easy compared to the roosters we had just culled.

Moodusnewchick baked them up in the oven and THEY WERE DELICIOUS!!!
Cornish game hen look out. They tasted like the best chicken I had ever eaten.
I'm hatching a hundred next month now!!!

 

[SandraMort]

You'll have to tell us all about these critters. I'm very interested in single serving birds, since my dh and kids don't eat meat.

 

[Cason]

Re: permit. In Missouri, yes. It's $10 per fiscal year.

 

[2manyhats]

Can't wait until the spring when I start hatching from my stock that I hatched this summer. I didn't do too well with the shipped eggs getting only 20% hatch. Only left me 16 birds for breading stock. I had hoped to taste quail this fall, but I'll have to wait.

 

[Mrs MIA]

I just lost 3-4 of my bobwhite babies last night to the cold...

so I guess we won't have any extras til next year, either.

Bad mommy.