We finally had a quail dinner! This is 7 quail, wrapped in bacon, along with several new potatoes, also wrapped in bacon, and a few squash, and peppers all in a wonderful 9x13 baking dish. I placed this in the oven for about 1 hour and we had a super supper all from one pot! By the way, it is so nice eating meals that you produced yourself...we raised the quail, bacon, potatoes, and squash for this meal! 
We received our first quail egg today, three of them infact. We are very excited about it too. The quail are exactly eight weeks old and they started laying , like clockwork. So far so good.
This is a comparison in size...one quarter, one quail egg and one of our fresh chicken egg... I can't wait till we have tons of the quail eggs, cause I want to make tiny deviled eggs, just for fun! 
My husband decided that we needed our own chicken plucker and so he has. He started out with a 4 inch pvc pipe end cap. He drilled a hole in the center put a 1/2 inch threaded rod into it. He used a lock washer on the endside of the cap and a nut on the outside to hold it.
He drilled out holes through the sides of the cap in an alternating pattern of two holes then one until all the way around.
He then inserted the chicken plucking fingers into the holes, working then into the holes because the fit must be very tight.
After the cap was completely finished, then the threaded rod is inserted into a handheld drill. The drill must have a 1/2 inch drill driver. The drill will be clamped onto the edge of a table, turned on and then the plucking will begin!!! 
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