Easy Fowl Cleaning!!!

[catahoula fan]

If you have fowl on your homestead, plucking will someday be an issue. We raise Muscovy ducks, for sale and for our own use. It has always been Roger's job to butcher and clean the birds before I package or start playin' in the kitchen. NOW, this chore of his has become much, much easier!

Not too long ago, we got a duck plucker from the US, one from http://www.pluckwitheasypluck.com. We purchased some plastic barrels in Masaya, mounted the plucker on the barrels to make an interesting-looking machine, and we were amazed that a job that would normally take 30 minutes was now taking about 2 minutes!



For now, I've been holding the drill while Roger plucks the duck. We'll put a shelf in soon, a suggestion by the inventor Rod, and then I'll get more pix, maybe even a video to show y'all the machine in action!

[Jonh]

I've gotta see the video.

[bill_bly_ca]

How much duck can a spinning chuck pluck if a spinning chuck could pluck duck ???

[tresfrijoles]

What a contraption! Can't wait to see the video.

[catahoula fan]

It's gonna be at least a month or so until we've got males ready for the plucker. If you need a pluckin' fix before then, check out the website listed in the beginning of the post for a demo. Seriously entertainin' stuff!

[Mikeh]

It's gonna be at least a month or so until we've got males ready for the plucker.

How old does a male duck have to be before he gets plucked? I was 16 before i was old enough to get plucked. A machine was not involved. Machines didn't enter the picture until I hit my 40s and started running out of steam.

If you need a pluckin' fix before then, check out the website listed in the beginning of the post for a demo. Seriously entertainin' stuff!

Internet duck porn!

[Dr. Demento]

How old does a male duck have to be before he gets plucked? I was 16 before i was old enough to get plucked. A machine was not involved. Machines didn't enter the picture until I hit my 40s and started running out of steam.



Internet duck porn!

objection, no coffee alert....

[Jonh]

I keep picturing Daffy Duck in this machine.

[Little Corn Tom]

Do you kill them before or after you pluck them?

[Jonh]

Do you kill them before or after you pluck them?

It's a duck plucker, not an iguana plucker!

[Dr. Demento]

I keep picturing Daffy Duck in this machine.

in case you can't see it, over daffy it says to jonh, "you're despicable!"

[Dr. Demento]

Do you kill them before or after you pluck them?

i thought if you plucked them, you'd kill them... are we talking a euphamism?

why are we talking about this in public?

[bill_bly_ca]

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[Jonh]

in case you can't see it, over daffy it says to jonh, "you're despicable!"

[Dr. Demento]

hahaahaha

[Jonh]

i thought if you plucked them, you'd kill them... are we talking a euphamism?

why are we talking about this in public?

Its' "euthanize" not "euphemism."

[Dr. Demento]

Its' "euthanize" not "euphemism."

ahhhh, go pluck yourself....

[Jonh]

ahhhh, go pluck yourself....

Pluck you, bud!

[Daddy-YO]

ahhhh, go pluck yourself....

That should be the last word. But I trust y'all will allow me to interject a thought or two.

There something fundamentally honest about killing, preparing & eating an animal that you've raised. 'Honest' is too weak a word, but I'm at a loss to find another that speaks to what seems to me a near-religious connection with LIFE on earth. I'm not a vegetarian but when I cook & eat store-bought meats I feel I am a hypocrite, less than 'honest' in dealing with what was once a fellow creature. I eat its carcass, but never touch its life. I can understand how "sacrifice" was so central to all religions.

When you go automate the process for the sake of 'productivity' I comprehend what you're about, but the images it brings to my mind are the Satanic mills that marked the beginning of the Industrial Revolution and the wholesale dehumanization of men.

Daffy? Perhaps. Despicable, indeed.

[Dr. Demento]

That should be the last word. But I trust y'all will allow me to interject a thought or two.

There something fundamentally honest about killing, preparing & eating an animal that you've raised. 'Honest' is too weak a word, but I'm at a loss to find another that speaks to what seems to me a near-religious connection with LIFE on earth. I'm not a vegetarian but when I cook & eat store-bought meats I feel I am a hypocrite, less than 'honest' in dealing with what was once a fellow creature. I eat its carcass, but never touch its life. I can understand how "sacrifice" was so central to all religions.

When you go automate the process for the sake of 'productivity' I comprehend what you're about, but the images it brings to my mind are the Satanic mills that marked the beginning of the Industrial Revolution and the wholesale dehumanization of men.

Daffy? Perhaps. Despicable, indeed.

pretty profound. i admit i do not delve so deeply into meaning... i am overwhelmed at all i have before me.. i do stop to consider all the modern conviences that allow me to tackle other stuff... but when i retire, i'd be glad to buy you an fdc and listen...

[Dr. Demento]

Pluck you, bud!

you do know that i am just pulling your feathers?

[Jonh]

you do know that i am just pulling your feathers?

Hey, no harm, no fowl.

[Dr. Demento]

Hey, no harm, no fowl.

The way i play, it's no blood, no foul..... YMMV

[Dr. Demento]

Hey, no harm, no fowl.

Ok, i admit it, you're cleverly chatting away... and i got nuttin... i'm like lorena bobbit's husband, i'm stumped...

[Jonh]

Ok, i admit it, you're cleverly chatting away... and i got nuttin... i'm like lorena bobbit's husband, i'm stumped...