Time to process my extra males

[James the Bald]

I got a question for you all that are processing multiple birds: do you kill all the birds then process the carcasses or do you kill one bird at a time and process each one separately? I ask because **** do they twitch a long time after they've been beheaded and bled out.

What I have done is take 6 medium sized Gator Aide bottles and cut the bottoms off. Then I used a small screw and mounted them to the inside of a 5 gallon bucket. After I decapitate one bird, I stuff it into one of the Gator Aide bottles head fir... uhh, bloody end first, then go retrieve another bird. Repeat the whole process until I have 6 birds no longer twitchin in the Gator Aide bottles. Then I pull them out, one by one and go assembly line on them, first cutting off the legs, then the wings, then pulling the skin off.... you get the idea. I can do a dozen birds in 15 minutes if I don't get side tracked.
Then when I'm done, I take the bucket to the hose and completely rinse the blood off of the bottles and store it upside down to dry off to use it the next time around. Speaking of next time, I'm going to watch a few videos on de-boning quail before hand so I can get that down.
James

 

[Quail Jailer]

I kill them, put them in a box and give it to my wife.

 

[LavLady]

When I decided to raise quail for meat, I read the "100 Broilers and Fermented Feed Project" thread. Everything there applies to quail, so far. I learned a LOT from that. Bonus points with me because it is written by a soft hearted lady like myself. Thats where I learned about holding food before butcher. It was also from reading that thread that I decided to skin rather than pluck. If I want a plucked bird, I am not that far from the grocery store...

 

[Quail Jailer]

Yeah, I told her it wasn't worth it, ( of course she had to find out for herself) she skins too.

 

[LavLady]

Do you make her gut your fish too? My SO guts my fish, i cant stand fish until it is well cooked.

 

[Quail Jailer]

Do you make her gut your fish too? My SO guts my fish, i cant stand fish until it is well cooked.

I don't make her anything, but usually she asks me for a fish, I go to the pond and catch her a couple and bring them home. Thus ending my involvement in the affair.

But you have to understand, her favorite part of the fish is, it's head.

 

[dc3085]

Anything you want to skin, skins out easier when the carcass is warm and supple. Until you get fast at it I'd only recommend doing 6-10 at a time so you aren't having to work on really stiff carcasses.

 

[Quail Jailer]

Anything you want to skin, skins out easier when the carcass is warm and supple. Until you get fast at it I'd only recommend doing 6-10 at a time so you aren't having to work on really stiff carcasses.

X10

Last year a buddy shot a deer just before sunset, he loaded it on his truck and left it there till morning, the temperature had plummeted to like 6 degrees overnight, I had to "HELP" process a frozen carcass. just getting it on a singletree was a struggle. I would have pulled the hide with my tractor but was afraid I'd bend the singletree. good times.

 

[FossilPeak]

Met my now wife while she was on a date with an acquaintance of mine. He was kind of a d-bag. He was running around "mingling" and she and I were sitting at the table visiting the whole evening. After a couple hours she said "your friend is kind of a loser isn't he..." Being the proper male I am I says "nah he's not that bad"... She says "you're wrong about that and I'd much rather go out with you if you're interested..." With nothing to lose I said "sounds good to me we're going dove hunting tomorrow afternoon what time should I pick you up?" (Thinking this would desuade or at least test her metal). She says 3:00. I go to her house and she comes to the door wearing shorty shorts, a camo tank top, hair and makeup done like she's bout to go into a photo shoot, and fancy shoes. I says, "umm...I was serious about the hunting part." She says "yeah I know". Well here we go. We sit out on a turn row she's playing dumb hot chick...I load the shotgun for her. 4 dove buzz us...BAM BAM BAM...two hit the ground. Wait a second...she's wearing high heels. She throws three more shells in and looks at me and says "I've done this before." Well kiss my grits. We finish up and walk back to meet the guys...I walk to the end of the field to get the truck and when I get back she's popping heads and pulling breasts...well needless to say I'm marrying this chick and I did. She hasn't cleaned a bird since.

 

[Quail Jailer]

What a touching story, brought a tear to my eye...