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I find with cockerels that they can become more challenging to skin after they have been in puberty a while. Different cockerels hit puberty at different ages so I'm not going to give you specific ages and expect them to be good for every cockerel on the planet. I typically butcher my...

Overscalding will not make the birds harder to pluck. No worries there. Bu the skin will tear so the carcass is not as pretty, which is important to some people. Overscalding can change the color of the meat on the surface which again can cause a not pretty carcass. As long as you don't get...

At that age the cockerels shouldn't be too hard to skin except for the wings. If you wait another month the connective tissue, including the tissue that holds skin to the carcass, become more of a problem. Wings are a pain anyway. I use poultry shears to clip off the wing tip and toss it, I...