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I used to work at a quail farm. We kept hundreds of thousands of them in a big-ass barn, each room a different age cohort. We'd clean the rooms every day and collect eggs from the 8/9 week old rooms. Once a week we'd go into the 9 week old room with fishing nets, catch the quail, dump them into mesh bags, stick them in a bucket, and gas them. We froze them and shipped them to falconers all over as food and training treats for their raptors.

It is possible to scoop up 109 quail in a moderately-sized fishing net.

[–] 4 pts

Even still, it would take WAY more than 5 and a half years to gas 6 million of them. Even if the Raptors were gorging on them 24 hours a day.

[–] 4 pts

Plus, our best census data shows that there were actually more quail after butchering them than there were when they started.

[–] 1 pt

My Aunt Quail had her left and right claws swapped by indoor quail farmers so she could not grip a branch with out swinging upside down. :'(

[–] 3 pts

I've sold many as reptile food. $5 a pop for any age bird depending on what your snake or monitor can handle.

[–] 3 pts

That really activated my almonds.