Re: Butchering chickens
[Re: pintail_drake04]
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06/01/20 03:22 PM
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Very nice. Do you have to scald before they go in to the plucker?
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Re: Butchering chickens
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06/01/20 03:36 PM
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Does it work on wild ducks and geese? Nice job on the processing and packaging.
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Re: Butchering chickens
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06/01/20 04:13 PM
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That's some professional looking processing there, nice job!
I don't know about ducks but the pluckers work on pheasants.
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Re: Butchering chickens
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06/01/20 04:18 PM
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very nice , it is all about the scald not everyone realizes that
get that right and the rest is a breeze
my plucker uses the same type of fingers but is built from a food grade 55 gallon drum and HDPE board , the frame is painted wood
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Re: Butchering chickens
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06/01/20 05:24 PM
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Beautiful job, Pintail! Do your laying hens think something fun is going on in that magic tub? Those cornish crosses look really nice. I need to thaw a chicken for supper!
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Re: Butchering chickens
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Do they make a model that will do 4 chickens? it doesn't look like yard bird does. https://www.yardbirdpluckers.com/commercial pluckers may but the slow down isn't typically the 20-30 seconds for the pluck it is the scald hard to scald more than 2 every 30 seconds I know they have the racks that hold 4 or 6 in the scaled tank but how much time do you spend loading and unloading it to get plucked well they need to be able to roll around in the plucker I am really glad to see a unit being made , when I built mine it cost me about what the yard bird does and has a larger foot print weights more probably doesn't pluck any faster. when I built mine it was build a Whiz Bang or buy a commercial and those ran around 1200 dollars
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Re: Butchering chickens
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06/01/20 06:02 PM
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How old are they when you cut them? Really nice packaging!
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Re: Butchering chickens
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On a related topic,,, Way back in the day,,, my parents used to save the chicken blood from butchering to use for catfish bait. You collect it in a bucket but poor it right away into sheet pans about 3/8-1/2" thick. Don't stir it up! let it set and coagulate in the pans, then cut it into long 1" strips, pour it into covered dishes to take it fishing with you. Wrap it on a treble hook, and use a 10" piece of braided line tied to the eye of the hook to wrap around the blood to keep it on the hook. They caught A LOT of fish on it!
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Re: Butchering chickens
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Boco I knew a commercial duck hunter. He told me back in the day they hired women to pluck the ducks before they were packed in barrels of salt and sent to Chicago. They used paraffin to dip the duck into then rip it back off. He said after was used toss back into the big melting pot and keep dipping.
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