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I use cold water spray in my plucker. I've been told that it shrinks the pores and causes the feathers to pop out of the pore more easily in the plucker, but it takes seconds to pluck a bird in the machine and I'm not sure it would work the same way if you were hand plucking.

Definitely alot easier to peel the feet after scalding the bird during evisceration. I try to get them peeled during the pluck. It can take some extra time though. Sometimes I'll leave the feet unpeeled and freeze them like that and then boil them without peeling them and then I'll put a scoop...

Right on! Congrats! Well thought out and recorded. Great example of a backyard butchering. Not necessarily of the utmost importance, but, personally, I like to take the organs out all at once after loosening the crop so they stay intact. With the bird on it's back and after making the initial...