Apparently it’s easier when the duck is still fresh and warm. Only took me about 10 minutes. Wondering if the chicken is as easy?
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The feathers on our duck were incredibly difficult to remove! We have friends who don't even bother and will just skin the duck instead (which is nuts! losing all that good fat!) Chickens definitely easier, although having a good chicken plucker drum machine gets it done in like 30 seconds. Even that didn't work well for the one and only duck we did. I wonder if it's a breed thing (which doesn't really make sense to me but I dunno)
Hmm idk either. This one was a Mallard. Plucked within 1hr of termination. What breed did you have?
Khaki campbell. Same timeframe. We scalded them first maybe that was our mistake. Did you do that?
I didn’t scald but I can assume that when doing that it shrinks the skin and tightens down on the feathers. This is what I noticed when cinching the down feathers. The skin noticeably shrunk close to the meat
so interesting! Thanks for answering my questions, I'll definitely have to experiment with not scalding