how to brest a pigeon

[mark12345]

Hi All

 

got my first woodie on Saturday (new to the sport) and got myself in quite a mess trying to brest it, anyone got any tips or tricks to get the brest out quick and easy

 

thanks

[Taff Mason]

just pluck the breast area, with a good sharp non serrated knife cut down along the breast bone. the slowly peel away the breast meat as you cut it using long slow strokes of the knife. when your right through the breast just peel it away from the skin. i find a knife with a slightly curved or rounded blade is better than a pionty one. the more you do, the neater you will be able to get it.

 

there are also loads of videos on youtube mate. mark gilchrist has some very good vids.

[mark12345]

thanks mate...

[jonboy1]

have a look at 'how to crown a pigeon the easy way' in the sporting shooting videos section mate

[snozzer]

Twist the wings off, then push your thumbs into the chest cavity at the place where the neck meets the breastbone and then pull apart with your hands. The whole crown will come off in one go and takes about 20seconds to do a whole pigeon and you don't even need a knife

[chrispti]

Twist the wings off, then push your thumbs into the chest cavity at the place where the neck meets the breastbone and then pull apart with your hands. The whole crown will come off in one go and takes about 20seconds to do a whole pigeon and you don't even need a knife

 

[Billy.]

Video to help

 

[lurcherboy]

Twist the wings off, then push your thumbs into the chest cavity at the place where the neck meets the breastbone and then pull apart with your hands. The whole crown will come off in one go and takes about 20seconds to do a whole pigeon and you don't even need a knife

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I have done a 7 seconds crowning

 

 

 

LB

[Nial]

Don't expect to do them that quickly when you're starting, you'll be looking at a couple

of minutes per bird when you first start.

 

I use secateurs to cut the wings off, I try to cut them as far in as possible.

 

Then rip the skin open at the top of the breast and get your thumbs well down into

the bird. You then basically rip the bird open and out, this takes a fair bit of effort.

 

If one side of the ribcage has been hit hard I've found the whole thing can

fall apart and become a reall mess, whatever you're looking for the point at

the bottom of the breast bone. When you've found that you can peel it up

and away from the rest of the bird.

 

I always seem to end up with feathers everywhere so have a bucket of water

sitting to rinse the crown in, this also helps get all the bit of 'stuff' off and

clean it up.

 

There's a definite 'butcher' smell when you're doing this (unsurprisingly) so

I find it hard to go in and immeditely cook the breasts rare. A night in the

fridge makes it easier to approach it as a piece of nice red meat!

 

 

Nial.

[ferretsbadger]

I rember watching Gordon Ramsey when he was taken out Pigeon shooting and the Gamekeeper he was with did exactly that. He basically twisted the wings off and popped out the crown! Hey presto! One nice little tasty self contained meal.. I tried it and somehow could not get the same results so have resorted to using the knife. Which ins't a problem realy as I likes the skin on them.

 

Good bit of deatil though Nial, I shall give it another go now.

[Billy.]

I rember watching Gordon Ramsey

 

I was originally looking for that video that i had in my favourites list on youtube, but i think it's been removed... The video I posted above is actually the reverse method, but much cleaner way of doing it, as the skin also peels itself off.

[auto culto]

I was originally looking for that video that i had in my favourites list on youtube, but i think it's been removed... The video I posted above is actually the reverse method, but much cleaner way of doing it, as the skin also peels itself off.

 

 

glad you liked it It was my first atempt at the vid although it was done when the light was failing

[featherplucker]

yeh..i have always took the wings off as above but instead of going into th chest cavity,i go in the other end.. haha..does sound yucky but its not and a hell of a lot easier..as the bird comes apart i then easily bring skin off crown and sorted.. try a few and you will get my drift...

[Dan_Smiff]

The bottom of the breast bone has a little lip which is easy to get your thumb under - lift it (after twisting off the wings!) and the whole load comes up away like a dream!

 

Important to get the wings broken off tight to the chest though as the stubs of bone will be the sticking points

[Windy]

search for my recent post 'pigeon prepping'.

Chap on here (cant think of his name!sorry) posted a link to his utube vids on how to do it.

 

Get a good (sabatier) boning knife, they're not expensive, and make it a simple job.

 

I left the woody in the fridge o/n (bagged) as it is so warm at the mo, in the morning, plucked out the breast/neck/torso area. Chopped off wings with a hatchet (to give a bit more room to manoeuvre). With freshly sharpened boning knife, cut tight along and down the breast bone, slow short strokes, as far down as you can get. the breast will start to fall away. then just cut where you need to either end to 'release' it. First time I'd done it on a woody (have done a phessy in the past) and it took minutes.