How much to charge to process geese???

[Bearsfan]

I just breast out my geese. It's quick, easy and clean. I grill mine anyway, so no need for fancy presentation.

Lots of coyotes out by me, nothing gets wasted. I toss the rest in the field and it's gone the next day.

 

[Bearsfan]

Whoops! double post!

 

[sonew123]

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ok then Ill tell him 7$ each and I dont have wax:-( well see I n=might get through the frist one and quit!

 

[MMPoultryFarms]

Ah good old geese they will scald just like chickens and arent quite that impossible to pluck the secret is to use duck wax http://www.cornerstone-farm.com/duck_wax.htm or dawn dish soap in the water if you use the dish soap make sure to swish them really good make little tornadoes with the water. (actually big) make sure the soap penitrates the feathers good and the down feathers good you will still need a Pinning knife. I prefer to skin them whole.

 

[Brunty_Farms]

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typically he always breasts them out but since I do whole birds he asked if I would do them-not all of them but half of them about 15 or more-his whole group of friends -Ill tell him a price after I process 1 bird--does anybody dunk them in boiling water and use feather pluckers???

Oh, ya.... I have a featherman pro too and it still doesn't make much of a difference.

 

[Brunty_Farms]

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I've used the dish soap before.... doens't work you still have tones of pin feathers. The majority falls out but the pin feathers are a nightmare. I haven't tried the wax yet but I'm willing to bet that it would help.

 

[Olive Hill]

I wouldn't do it for less than $7 each. Honestly for wild waterfowl I would charge more like $10 each as you're not getting them at their "prime" plucking age as you would with a domestic raised specifically for this purpose.

 

[sonew123]

I think I am just not going to do it period now! LOL

 

[Jared77]

Id try one and see how you do with it and be sure its worth the investment. We don't take many geese (we don't gun for them if they decoy on our spread thats one thing but no goose spreads here) so the few we do we pluck to appease the elders in our family who want a "traditional christmas goose" but if it was me Id just raise another turkey

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[Olive Hill]

I'm not trying to tell you not to do it, just to charge accordingly for your time and labor. There is a reason these guys want to pay you to do this and it's not because they love the job so much they want to share their joy.