"Leonard Blaisdell" > wrote in message
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> In article >, jmcquown
> > wrote:
>
>>
>> <shrug> I enjoy it, too. But I never thought of quail legs as a gem.
>> A lot of guys I worked with in west TN went quail hunting. I can't see
>> going to all that trouble for a bird that small.
>
> I've eaten my share of quail and doves. Wild quail legs are usually
> left in the field in Nevada. Breasts are kept. What you read may have
> been a misprint. They might have meant quail eggs which are fairly
> common and equally useless to other than a starving man.
> But quail eggs are culinarily cool and expensive. Quail legs shouldn't
> be. I figure it would take a hundred of them to feed a person poorly.
> 2 cents.

Pretty much what my husband does when he is hunting. He cleans his kill in
the field and other animals eat it.

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