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  • From: "Karen L. Black" <karen AT plamondon.com>
  • To: <homestead AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [Homestead] Butchering Poultry
  • Date: Mon, 15 Dec 2008 07:06:20 -0800

Rob writes:

> How many do you do a time and do you use a powered plucker?

I do 10-20 at a time, by myself. I have both a 60-gallon Pickwick propane
scalder and a Pickwick HD drum picker (the kind you hold the bird against).
I've also done batches of 40-50 with a friend who butchers hers all at once,
and the setup is well within that capacity. More than that, and we'd run out
of chill tanks; and have to kill some, then eviscerate, then kill more, etc.
I prefer getting all the messy work done, cleaning up, and doing the
evisceration.

Karen Black
Norton Creek Farm
Blodgett, OR




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