1 smoked pheasant and 9 chukars
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Looks good, had to look up what a chuckar was. :)
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Sweet Birds! How do you pluck them? I am going to raise a few thousand chukar and pheasant this year and plan on smoking a bunch. Would like to leave skin on but have never done it before. Same as a chicken?
I do leave the skin on them, to be honest I didn't pluck them we hunted a game farm where they hunt just birds. Part of the deal is they clean the birds.
But I have cleaned them in the past and I deep them in real hot water and this will soften up the skin and the feather pull out easy. Or you could invest in a bird plucker with that many birds. Or a few cases of beer and some good friends ha ha
Either way it is a mess and a pain.
Last few years years we've butchered 75 -100 chicken and have the plucker and use a couple turkey deep fryer cookers with a metal water trough for scorching the birds. I wonder if the game birds have as tough a skin as chicken or if the plucker will tear them apart. Only one way to find out ;)
My mother always did the plucking - guess you could call her a mother plucker.
they use a plucker at the game farm, and they hold up. Never had one tear the skin