BobWhite Quail

the guys josh works for shot a bunch of quail...or was it a family member who shot them...not sure...anywho...josh cleaned them up tonight and we have a heap of quail breasts to eat!! i am sure we'll share them with david....if anyone has any ideas of how to cook the little suckers, i'd greatly appreciate it. poor little fellows...i know they are raised for this purpose...as game birds but it doesn't change that they were once flying around and now they will be dinner. there is just something that moves in me when i come this close to our meat as it was in its animal life...as opposed to packaged self.
on this same note, i drove by a handful of deer the other day on faust farm rd...and then returned that same way about a half hour later and the deer were still milling about. i slowed down, curious as to why they had not moved on and discovered a dead fawn just off the road. the other deer didn't want to leave the little one....they kept coming back to her. how sad! it is just hard for me sometimes to wrap my mind around eating thinking creatures......