Poultry defeatherers. Do they work well?

The plucking machines?  For quail you need a softer rubber finger and the fingers spaced closer together.  But, yes, you can pluck quail with a plucker.

If you look at the website for the EZPlucker, you will find a quail plucking machine.

Plucking machines are nice but the important part is the scald.  If your scald is bad the plucker won't help much.

We built a wiz-bang. Look it up on youtube. After a year of tweaking, I can pluck 3 chickens at a time or a 35lb turkey. A turkey will make that thing wobble back and forth like a washer with a load off center on the spin cycle but it gets the job done. In my opinion it's worth it's weight in elbow grease. 

I'm very new to this topic & this was a great bit of info.  It'll be my husband doing it, 'cuz I'm too squeamish nowadays.  Not sure why, as I used to clean literally hundreds of fish every summer as a kid, but the idea of doing that now just gags me.  LOL
 

Build a whizz bang,  best money and time I ever spent, especially if you have any quantity or plan on doing this for a while,  I rent mine to neighbors, 25 cents/bird, $20.00 minimum..helps to defray money I have invested in fingers, motor, drive parts, etc......

Hi Birdman1960, I looked at all the video's on youtube and could not find one that shows how to make one. Could you possible tell me how you put it together? I am looking on ebay now for the parts to try to build one. 

I bought the shaft, feather plate and fingers on e-bay, i used a double reduction chain and sprocket set up, no belts to get wet and slip, the feather plate turns at about 209 rpm, it is a plan I copied from a retired engineer, he did all of the figuring. It works great

Id pay good money to not have to pluck by hand.  Im getting 10 meat birds in a few weeks and I dread the plucking in my future.