[AT] Pluck chickens with a clothes dryer?

[Ralph Goff]

On 7/13/2011 9:52 AM, Ben Wagner wrote:
> The plucker I saw still needs the feathers to be scalded.  I think ducks are
> dry plucked, and maybe geese too, but I'm not for sure.
>
> The process you mentioned is exactly the way I still process my chickens,
> except that I use a plate of alcohol to singe the pin feathers.
>
>
My Sil raises and butchers chickens and has the automated chicken 
plucker. It works well and fast, far quicker than the old hand method of 
plucking feathers that I used to do as a kid helping out on the farm.
Yes, the new type plucker still requires scalding the chickens to loosen 
the feathers. They the rubber fingers on the rotating drum just tear the 
feathers off.
I only raise Bantams now and have never tried butchering them as they 
are so small.. Anybody need some free Bantam roosters??

Ralph in Sask.