Is making soup or broth the best way of extracting calories from tiny game I've been in places where the ONLY game has been tiny... garter snakes, frogs, minnows, small birds, squirrels... didn't even see a rabbit/hare all day much less any deer. If those tiny game are the only thing you can catch, is it better (after removing feathers/fur) to just stick roast them and eat them or should one spend the extra time and put them in a pot with some water and boil them for a couple of hours to get the most calories? (and yes, I know the difficulty of catching smart squirrels and songbirds... but I have done it and always just put them on a fire, but it seems like much of the meat gets burned and turned into charcoal even when the "fire" is just hot coals)