Eating quail

We didn't do really well with the quail we hatched. We startd with 42 eggs, 13 hatched and 6 survived. We have just killed and eaten 3 of the 6. One because it had been badly pecked, the other two because they kept pecking the others. One was very small (the one that got pecked) but the other two were a good size - and delicious.

We have bought an additional 12 (9 females and 3 males) from our riding instructors neighbour. He just keeps them as pets, but has more than a hundred. Our riding instructor assured him we were not going to eat them! We did not lie!

We are hoping they can get on well enough to produce some fertilised eggs so we can try again hatching them. We will see. We seem to have problems when thy reach maturity, the males start prcking the females on the head. It is normals if they do it a little bit and the females often have a bald patch, but they seem to go way overboard and nearly peck their heads off.

Maybe eating the culpits will be a warning to the others :)

I just roasted them for about 15 mins with a bit of salt and oil on them. You can fry them a bit to brown the skin more before roasting them - but I never bother.