560 Ranchers launch effort to build own meat plants to fight against low beef prices. (www.foxnews.com) posted 3 years ago by Taffy333 3 years ago by Taffy333 +560 / -0 94 comments share 94 comments share save hide report block hide replies
form a co-op
raise quail (TAMU coturnix quail are bred for this)
You can just about do this in an apartment
Get some quail eggs scissors for the eggs.
About 5 quail eggs = 1 chicken egg.
Get an incubator -- hatch 50-100 at a time
9 weeks from egg to laying an egg
You can eat the birds
purest curiousity; is quail as gamey as duck? My great grandmother made duck one time, and let me try it as a kid.
I ate one bite and was done, lol.
Also, the Coturnix quail are naturally tame enough to be pets.,
especially the TAMU Coturnix. It's like a micro-chicken
https://i.pinimg.com/736x/93/5a/98/935a98f5a0c979e5b2979afe67b9ed6d.jpg
aww, they look like if kittens were birds, lol.
IMO quail is not as gamey as a duck.
A lot of it comes from the animals diet.
I can even taste the difference in the eggs.
The trick is to get the meat tender, like soaking it in brine.
Some grocery store chicken has treatment done to it.
Kids love little fried quail eggs. You need to get quail egg scissors to open them easily.
https://farm8.staticflickr.com/7152/6802654295_e01d72bccb_z.jpg
huh. They look like first year chicken eggs. (fun fact, the older your chickens get, the bigger the eggs get (to a point, obviously, lol)
My grandmother used to raise chickens, and when the chickens got older, they'd start laying eggs with two yolks, lol.
My parents tried to "sell" us on something called "city chicken"....it was awful...later found out it was rabbit!
well...If you were desperate for meat, i guess... =/
Rabbits, chickens in back yard too. I got the idea for rabbits from Julia Child who raised meat rabbits when her husband was assigned to France for the embassy.