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| Silent Spring |
Posted - Jul 11 2008 : 05:43:40 AM
Im new to this forum. Hello all, nice to meet you. I am hoping you will share your opinions with me regarding tub pluckers vs hand plucking. I raise pastured chicken. They are grain fed plus veggies- no commercial chicken feed. I have always hand plucked until recently. I took 100 birds to a processor and noticed that the skin does not have the same waxy shine nor seems as thick as when I have plucked them. They had much less pin feathers so looked cleaner. I am thinking about buying the featherman but want to know if anyone else has noticed a difference in skin texture between the two methods, and any comments pro or con about the featherman. Feel free to email me if you want to answer off forum. Thanks for any input.
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| Jami |
Posted - Jul 13 2008 : 07:52:37 AM
Diana, that's what we do now mostly with wild game birds because we haven't butchered any of our chickens...we want their eggs, but my DH taught me that skinning was the easiest (and yes, sigh, probably healthier) way of going about it.
There's more than one way to "pluck" a chicken I guess. 
Jami in WA
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| dkelewae |
Posted - Jul 13 2008 : 06:26:58 AM
I've never plucked a chicken, having grown up in the city, but a friend of mine who raised chickens said that she eliminated the whole plucking process by removing the skin, feathers and all. Her hubby had heart disease so he couldn't eat the skin of the chicken, so she figured why not remove the skin and feathers at the same time.
Diana
St. Peters MO
Country Girl trapped in the city! |
| Libbie |
Posted - Jul 12 2008 : 6:58:28 PM
Can I add that even neighborhood children can be "borrowed" for this task by offering some plucked chickens to their mothers ?!?!?
XOXO, Libbie
"Farmgirl Sister #10," and proud of it!!! |
| levisgrammy |
Posted - Jul 12 2008 : 6:52:20 PM
All us kids did the plucking. I never heard of any other way to do this.
Denise
farmgirl sister #43
"Take a lesson from the teakettle, though up to its
neck in hot water...it sings!"
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| Jami |
Posted - Jul 11 2008 : 2:42:11 PM
You bet, so was I!
Jami in WA
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| 82kygal |
Posted - Jul 11 2008 : 12:21:58 PM
I was the chicken plucker growing up
With God, all things are possible. (Mark 10:27)
What ever you are, be a good one. (Abe Lincoln) |
| Jami |
Posted - Jul 11 2008 : 10:42:29 AM
Around here, we call kids chicken pluckers...thought that was what they were for???
Jami in WA
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| windypines |
Posted - Jul 11 2008 : 09:34:16 AM
Linda, we have a homemade chicken plucker that we bought off a friend. It works wonderful. I would not want to process chickens without it. I don't know about the difference in skin texture, but the time it saves is enough for me. Ours has rubber fingers that turn on a drum.
Michele |
| Alee |
Posted - Jul 11 2008 : 06:55:41 AM
Welcome to the forum, Linda!! Aunt Jenny is one of our resident chicken-plucker experts! I bet she will have lots of information for you!
Alee
Farmgirl Sister #8
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