OK... I had to share this... ZykloniaDark-GothikRanchr had posted something about this in another thread, and as I had just spent the last 3 days doing fine-detail plucking on 17 meat birds, I decided to pick Delight's brains on it.  I cannot take the credit, but we did it today on three roosters (yes, my extra lt Brahmas are no more) and I was amazed at how easy it was.   I decided to document it for other "visual" learners.

You will need:
~a chicken
~Water
~Paraffin wax
~A large pot for the water, just warm enough to melt the paraffin wax, and large enough to dunk a whole chicken.
~A large bucket, or another pot, with ice cold water in it, deep enough to dunk a whole chicken.

The paraffin we bought came 4 chunks to a box for around $1-2.  Melt 1 chunk in the water.


While that is melting, dispatch your chicken in a manner of your choosing.  Ours seem to lose their heads more often than not. 
Rough pluck by removing the large wing feathers, tail feathers, and a few handfuls of the back and chest feathers.




Take your chicken to the pot of wax, and dunk.  Hold for a 20 count.  Remember, the water should not be HOT, just WARM.






Take your chicken to the bucket (here we only had a cooler left to use) of ice-cold water and leave it there for several minutes. 


We dispatched the next chicken and waxed it in that time.  When we put the 2nd chicken in the ice-bath, we took out the first one and started plucking.


I took my hands and pressed around the chicken, breaking the wax into pieces.  Then just start peeling it like an orange.
























Afterwards, I rinsed the chicken to get the rest of the wax off (as instructed ) and once indoors, I used small needlenose pliers to remove the last few little feathers that the wax missed, and finished removing the neck.  Running a butter knife against the remaining pinfeathers removes most of them easily - kind of like scaling a fish.  I would say all of that took maybe 10 minutes, when I've been known to spend 2 hours plucking the pinfeathers off of a chicken. 

For each chicken, melt a new block of wax.  If you melt it all at once, it will all come out with the first chicken (trust me on that!).  This is good for a small number of chickens, but I could see it getting expensive if you have a LOT of chickens to do.  We're in the process of gathering parts for a Whiz Bang plucker, but for the 3 birds we did today, this worked fabulously!  Thank you, Delight!!! 
And thanks to hubby, for taking the photos!