It seems quite that some would try to belittle someone or try to disgrace someone just to conform to their way only.

Fact #1 No one suggested that breasting a bird out is because of being lazy but of preference in taste and the significant difference it takes in cooking both consistenty under the same flame. If truth be known do you skin the bird, if not one could say your to lazy to boil water with parifyn then burn the pin feathers thats left and then clean up pots etc. used for removing feathers or it could also be for health reasons that by removing the skin one consumes less FAT.

Fact #2 Respecting your quarry making full use of it. I hate to inform anyone that try to disgrace me or anyone else that breast a bird out, that nothing goes to waist. Unless you are short sighted, if the remains are left possum, skunk etc.. then bones are ate for calcium by mice and of course lets not forget all the bugs (ants, maggots, larvae, beetles, etc). If thrown in with multch (compost pile) it makes rich soil. What you forget to realize is that it is a cycle and all natural resource has. I would think someone who thinks otherwise is more of an anti-hunter

Fact #3 Just by purchasing a hunting license all of us are contributing in some way in conservation. Those that do pursue an animal helps by reducing the number to a healthy level making it easier for the species to maintain a healthy balance with the niche or food source in the area.

Fact #4 If anyone wants to keep legs of the birds or the whole bird it makes no difference to me have at it. Why then does it make a difference to you that I keep the breast? Before you answer make sure you keep the whole bird because with your train of thought you should be keeping heart, liver, gizzard and possible kidneys or are you in your own words lazy and have no respect for your quarry? Do you skin or pluck the bird? Do you keep the neck for soup?

I will emphasize that the advice not leaving remains lay around especially by roads is good and suggest this makes sense. On the other hand if we did not hunt and keep numbers in line how many would be seen on the side of the road being struck by vehicles? Personally I wait to clean the birds tell at home or camp but again to each their own.