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.
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.
Plus, our best census data shows that there were actually more quail after butchering them than there were when they started.
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. :'(
I've sold many as reptile food. $5 a pop for any age bird depending on what your snake or monitor can handle.
That really activated my almonds.
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