What age to butcher Muscovy ducks?

[Old Philosopher]

I hate wasting anything on an animal. I just want to avoid the pin feather nightmare I encountered with my Pekin ducks. If I had more than 3 to butcher, I'd be investing in some duck wax. Paraffin was a joke!

 

[Normajeaner]

I also raise and eat my ducks - I use a product called "duck wax" to help with the job of plucking - I hand pluck the duck very quickly and get about 70% of the large feathers off and then dunk the bird into the hot wax - then into ice water and repeat one or two times. After the wax gets hard- all you do is peal the wax off and you have a great looking rooster without killing yourself. I love the skin!

The important part is that Duck Wax has an added adhesive and is not the same as paraffin wax.

So Cool~ Id love to see a video of your waxing your ducks!