Chicken and Duck Plucking on the Homestead
On the Road Season 1
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Hosting a chicken and duck plucking on our homestead. Where we don't do the plucking but instead set up our scalder and plucker and let folks come out and use it. We actually don't eat or process that many chickens so by inviting others to use our equipment justifies the setup. In fact during this plucking we didn't process one chicken for ourselves. We did have several ducks and three turkeys for us.
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