Processing Silkie Roos

[Mosey2003]

I bought a nice thing at Ikea that fits over a sink. It is a screen shaped bowl, its great! It was pretty cheap, and I like it for washing almost everything.

I've seen those. I need to frequent more garage sales and I'm sure I'd have all kinds of stuff like that lol.

 

[aart]

So we processed the 8 silkie Roosters today. Dry pluck was pretty difficult. After dipping in boiling water for a minute they plucked extremely easily. The feathers were very sticky so I was shaking my gloves a lot. The bonus was no pin feathers at all and just two had some fine hairs. Everything went really well and went a lot quicker than processing our Cornish cross chickens.

How was gutting them, did your hand fit in there?
Curious too, how old were they(sorry, maybe I missed that part)?

 

[BirdsBeesTrees]

How was gutting them, did your hand fit in there?
Curious too, how old were they(sorry, maybe I missed that part)?

They were 6 months old. My husband has huge hands but he gutted them nicely, while I was plucking. He is used to cleaning pheasants and quail. He doesn't try to shove his whole hand in, he said he just uses his fingers.

 

[mixedUPturk]

Would make a neat Halloween dish! I just did my first Svart Hona roo and he was the wildest proccessing ive done of a hundred or so, even the lungs had a black marbling to them. Ive done many many quail and yes the fingers are the key strong fingernails help! Knowing where everything troublesome is located like the lungs helps too. Spatchcocking like i saw someone mention is the simplest way to be sure its all gone. I skin all my birds so not much help with plucking but glad to hear you accomplished the job! Is anyone there balking on the eating them? Wish i couldve shown my teen and DH this thread before i cooked him cuz they refused to touch it he was delicious though!

 

[BadPenny]

Thanks for this thread! So glad that I found it last night while wondering what to do about the silkies I processed today. Scalded and plucked like the other two banty roosters and didn't lose the fat I would have if I'd skinned them as I was anticipating!