[Ian33]

Obviously, it all depends on the temperature, hung in freezer, it will keep, if not, it will go off, the higher the temp, the quicker it will rot

Hello Sailor

[DoctorBeaver]

<--------- gives up eating phytoplankton [:0]

[The King]

I just had to kill a quail (which wasn't very nice). But I kind of want it to taste very nice, so I've stuck it in my garage.

I wanted to figure out why you hang them - was it the airflow? just a question of time?

Reading On Food and Cooking by Harold McGee, it seems that game is hung so that gravity stretches out the body and stops the muscles all bunching up together. The enzymes in the muscles break proteins into savoury amino acids and convert ATP (the energy chemical in all animals, I think) into IMP (inosine monophosphate, which presumably tastes amazing).