Chicken Slaughter and Butchering Process: Scalding & Plucking

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SPEAKER 2

Okay, I just checked the temperature of the bath. It's right at 160 degrees. So I'll go for about a minute or until a wing feather pulls out easily.

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55 seconds elapse here in real time. Some folks add a little soap to the water. to aid in penetration and loosening of the feathers. I did not.

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There comes some wing feathers, okay. Now if I was in there long enough, then the skin should come off the feet as well pretty quickly. Okay, now we're ready to pluck.

Chicken Slaughter and Butchering Process: Scalding & Plucking

This is a necessary step to loosen the feathers for plucking, either by hand or by machine...

Aug 23, 2024

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This was a four part series uploaded to YouTube in 2016. Unfortunately, in the past couple of years YouTube has chosen to “age restrict” (18 or older) some of the videos. So, as I have to repeat too often, at 17 you can join the Army, empower the state by taking part in the War on Terror, and have your arms and legs blown off by an IED, but you can’t drown your sorrows in a beer (in many states) and you can’t watch a chicken being butchered. That’s what’s wrong with the United States in a nutshell.

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SPEAKER 2

There comes some wing feathers, okay. Now if I was in there long enough, then the skin should come off the feet as well pretty quickly. Okay, now we're ready to pluck.