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Hi there,  glad you like the maggot bucket! 

To defeather, I got a big pot of water to 60-70C temperature, dunk the body of the dead chicken into it for a short moment, and then dunk the bird into a another container with ice water.  This "blanching" loosens the feathers nicely, and then it's just a matter of pulling feathers out by hand. 

by Kommando Mutiliid; 1 hour ago (edited); Report 👍 1

nice! thank you. i'm thinking of raising quails & when my family processed our ducks, we used a friends' defeathering/plucking machine. as quails are much smaller fowl, i imagine processing them by hand like that would work just fine

by cheshiremachin; 50 minutes ago (edited); Report 👍