Thinking of raising quail for meat, but...

[dc3085]

I have a video I did a while back on how to slaughter them by hand or with scissors, that I give out to people that buy quail from me for meat (you can't legally sell(spelling edit) processed birds in CA without an exemption from the state). If you guys want I can put it on youtube.

 

[PinkBee]

I have a video I did a while back on how to slaughter them by hand or with scissors, that I give out to people that buy quail from me for meat (you can't legally sale processed birds in CA without an exemption from the state). If you guys want I can put it on youtube.

I, for one, would very much appreciate that. Thank you for offering!

 

[dc3085]

Here ya go. I can't find the second video where I show how to clean the carcass but I have about a dozen to process tomorrow so I'll take another one.

 

[PinkBee]

I've watched quite a few videos on processing quail, but all of them have been very careful not to show the actual deed. Thank you for posting this. It's a bit surprising, but for that, maybe more welcome. I think I would have been fairly upset to have a bird thrash after being killed. Now, I'll know to expect that and be prepared.

DelBlueHen, I hope this is helping you as well!

 

[dc3085]

Hopefully it helped. I care that people humanely euthanize any animal that has to be slaughtered or put down, so I thought maybe showing them the act would help save some birds from botched attempts. I sell birds almost specifically to people who live and work in the big city, so many of them are completely unprepared to undertake this without some sort of guidance.

The thrashing is actually important. If you are wringing the neck and the bird isn't thrashing it isn't dead. When you have done it correctly the thrashing will begin as soon as the neck separates. As sick as it sounds you will develop a skill for separating the neck without the head coming off.

I'll try to film a how to clean them today. For the life of me I can't find part two of that video (bless the digital age)

 

[teradragon]

thanks for the video. Very useful.

 

[dc3085]

I made a new video today of the method I use to clean the carcasses for the table.

 

[MrsKitty]

Thanks for the video. Seems I made the process a bit more complicated for myself by overthinking it. Also, as mentioned before, it was nice to see a video that shows what happens after you off them. My first bird was a shocker!

 

[dc3085]

Glad it was helpful. Once you get it down that way it will take you under 3 minutes a bird to have them ready to cook. It's especially nice when you have a lot of birds to clean. I don't think I mentioned it in the video but quail don't do well in baggies in the freezer (they get a lot of freezer dust or whatever you want to call it) so if your eating them a lot a vacuum sealer is a must.

 

[PinkBee]

Dc, I didn't know that about the freezer and the vacuum sealer either. Good to know! (It would be very disappointing to raise and process these and then have them get ruined in the freezer.) Thanks again.