05/20/2026
I too follow Gravel and Grace Homestead . I love their posts and teaching moments. Ryan's Gosslings, you said it better than I could.
Jessica over at Gravel and Grace Homestead recently posted a video (that showed nothing of consequence) of her teaching her friend to cull quail.
There's 3 ways to cull a quail "humanely"... (and free) depending on your view:
1) Scissors. This is the most humane way without using gas. It's fast, efficient, and the bird has passed in seconds.
2) Literally pulling it's head off. Quail are super fragile birds, and the head will come off easily. This is probably there with scissors in being humane, but ripping their heads off is probably a little too much for people to handle.
3) Cranial impact. It's what it sounds like, is hard to do, and may not work all the time.
The "most" humane way is to cull with a noble gas. Argon, Helium, Nitrogen, etc. This would cause the animal to go to sleep and not suffer at all. Carbon Dioxide is the preferred method to cull large (1,000+) amounts of birds at once - but unfortunately - it causes pain in the respiratory airways - Akin to a Soda burp.
When she posted this video of a scissor cull- People lost their f*cking minds.
Over a teaching moment.
Unfortunately, this really highlights what we've lost as a society in our relationship to food.
The comments are nasty. Absolutely vile. The epitome of disgusting human ignorance.
It seems to me that people genuinely think that their food comes from a grocery shelf - that there's no chain of supply behind that. That no one actually put in effort to grow and make that food available to them.
In a very apolitical statement -
With the way that the current economy, supply chain, food prices, paychecks, inflation, etc. are, it deeply concerns me that people would rather depend heavily on a supply that may not be there tomorrow then raise supplemental food.
It doesn't have to be quail - it could be anything.
We had victory gardens.
People would keep a single hog.
Chickens always.
Maybe a family cow.
Animal keeping and husbandry has become so charged with hatred and drama that the common dummy thinks that anyone who has them is a monster and abuses their animals cause they eat them.
Like it or not - Our brains require protein, amino acids, fats, vitamins, and trace minerals to operate. Meats are the fastest way to get that into you in -one- package, compared to plants.
Quail and Rabbits are two of the hands down -fastest- producers of proteins that you can raise for yourself.
To demonize someone for providing what they need for themselves and their family is absolutely heinous in the state of today, and a disservice to the common man.
F*ck.
I'm second-hand angry.
Angry by proxy.
