How do you clean your birds?

[gasman]

Just  a little curious on how others clean there birds. 
Do you pluck the feathers?
If so how? By hand or with a feather plucker, or do you just skin the bird?
Or, do you have another method of preping you bird for the grill?

Lets here your preferance.

[mossback91]

usually just skin em......dont like messing with the feathers

[Old Dog]

I breast them, and bone out the thighs.  I usually don't have to mess with the guts.

[robb92]

If you want to leave the skin on them dunk them in a pot of boiling water , this will make pulling the feathers out so much easier. I usually skin them or breast them out,

[dirty.dan4]

Skin them.

[Antlershed]

For Grouse...step on their wings and pull on their feet. 

[tlbradford]

Gut them as soon as I'm back to the truck, then usually breast them out at home unless I am going to keep some for roasting.

[Birdguy]

Grouse like antlershed. The rest we skin. There is to much work in plucking those smaller birds. Turkey we pluck or skin depending on the cooking timeframe and method. I also skinned the one we are mounting .

[clawdad]

quail- find the bottom of the breast plate  push your thumb under it and pull out the breasts ( sounds extreme but it works )
Pheasant/ chukar/ huns/grouse/ - peel back the down just enough to get your knife under the skin  expose the breast and I remove the breast plate.
Ducks/geese  remove the down enought to get you knife under the skin cut vertically to expose the breast ( northerns skin is usually a little harder to peel back) then cut along the center of the breast plate (each side) and carefully cut the breast away from the plate. I haven't ever plucked because it seems like a lot for the little meat you get and grouse guts really smell.

[Sportfury]

I do the same as Old Dog. Breast and thighs.

[509er]

For Grouse...step on their wings and pull on their feet. 

 

[gasman]

For Grouse...step on their wings and pull on their feet. 

I have done this before, works great.

[sisu]

For Grouse...step on their wings and pull on their feet. 

That or skin them. Even ducks some times I'll skin instead of breasting.

[benbo30]

For Grouse...step on their wings and pull on their feet. 

yea heard that one before a buddy of ours told us that , so i asked him to show me he couldnt do it

[WildBear]

Grouse, Step on their wings, Here Too! Can't remember where we ever heard it, but works great!!