With quail I use a pair of sharp kitchen shears and a 5 gallon bucket to hold them her for bleeding... hold each one because if they get to wing flopping those wings are easily broken..
Hand plucking that many could be tedious ( quail pluck easily in a plucker). But I think would try dipping in a scald water ( I use 130 temp for quail) then pulling feathers into an area that you can keep running water constantly going over them..
Can you tell prefer to keep skin on quail
I never seen it but I have a buddy that took an old salad spinner and glued rubber around the inside, he says he plucks quail and other small game birds with it....
Wish was closer, they would go quickly n a plucker.the most I ever did at a time was 24 and I remember the process going quickly..
Just remember that domestically raised animals do not have the thick skin of wild, watch those temps or you will tear the son all up.
we do have a plucker , would that work for a quail? we thought that the plucker would maybe beat them up too bad, i love it for the chickens tho, thats why we made one, hand plucking was getting hard on my hands, good ole arthritis , could only do three, maybe four chickens a day. maybe i should just do four or five at a time and hand pluck, a good fried up quail is hard to beat taste wise if i remember correctly. but i don't want the quail to suffer so maybe the kitchen shears would be better for dispatching.
thanks
