smoked chukar and pheasant

[murrhunts]

1 smoked pheasant and 9 chukars

[mikecorn.1]

Looks good, had to look up what a chuckar was. :)


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[Little Bear Game Farm]

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?

[murrhunts]

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.

[Little Bear Game Farm]

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  ;)

[KevinG]

My mother always did the plucking - guess you could call her a mother plucker.

[murrhunts]

they use a plucker at the game farm, and they hold up.  Never had one tear the skin