My new store and website is now active!!!!

To continue following the Blue Ridge Quail Farm, please go to www.blueridge-quail-farm.com.  All future blog posts, photos and videos will be there.  You'll find a new store that accepts all major credit cards as well Paypal.  Thanks to everyone who has visited here and I hope to see you at the new store!

Plucking a few birds by hand

This is a You Tube video that someone else has made but I thought it was a good idea if you only had a few birds to do.  He mentions the water temperature as being 160 but I have found most literature to recommend about 145-150.  You may want to do a little research on your own before you get started.

He says he is doing about 40 birds this way but if you listen there are three people involved.  Two are plucking and on is doing the evisceration.  So if you are by yourself, 40 birds would take a good long while.  Also, notice that they are inside a kitchen area of some sort.  An excellent idea if you can have one!

Here's another video from You Tube showing basically the same method except he cuts his quail down the middle from the front instead of down the back.  I personally cut up the backbone so I can leave the breast looking good.

He's also processing Bobwhite instead of Jumbo Brown Coturnix.  He takes the process all the way through to cooking the bird.  Worth watching!

Drill-powered quail plucker almost done

I was hoping to actually do some quail plucking today as I really need to get rid of the males that just sit around eating.  But it is really cold to be dipping my hands in the water for a few hours so I just went ahead and worked on the plucker.  Here's the latest video.  It's almost done. I'm about to run to Home Depot for some plumbing strap to hold it all down and then I'll show the final video.  I hope to shoot the scene when I actually do the plucking.

Live quail chicks available for local pickup

I've got about 30 or 40 chicks 3 days to 1+ week old available.  $2.00 EACH.   Will sell all for 1.00 each.  local pickup only.

Building the drill-powered quail plucker - part 2

I got all the fingers in the cap and I'm ready to attach the 3/8 threaded rod and make a test run with it.  My intentions are to process about 25 quail on Saturday and get some footage showing this thing in action!  Let me know what you think!

Building the drill-powered quail plucker - part 1

This will be a little series on how to build a drill-powered quail plucker.  I hope to include the actual plucker in use as part of the series as I have about 20 or so quail to pluck.  Hope you enjoy it!

Video showing quail plucking fingers

This little video shows you what the quail plucking fingers look like.  I was able to shoot another video tonight showing me starting to put it together.  That's next!