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Originally posted by Nicos View PostOMG!!!...I've just finished dry plucking our Marans male.
windy??...yup!...what a day to choose my first dry plucking!
I wanted to keep his lovely soft fluffy feathers and I read somewhere that wetting them in warm/hot water damages them. ...is that correct and have I just spent an hour fiddling about for nothing when a quick dunk would have made things so much easier????
So, do you prefer wet or dry plucking?
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Thanks sally - i do hope he pulls through and makes it as i really could do with a tame saddleback boar to go with my tame saddleback girl..... i really hope he fits the bill as i couldnt bring myself to turning him into sausage after spending all this time hand rearing him!!
<--------- me a soft sod really
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I talked of skinning ours, but himself likes a Roast, and would rather they were plucked. He can do one then, I reckon! We're planning on doing the biggest two this coming weekend, and the other two the following week.All the best - Glutton 4 Punishment
Freelance shrub butcher and weed removal operative.
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Originally posted by Glutton4... View PostI talked of skinning ours, but himself likes a Roast, and would rather they were plucked. He can do one then, I reckon! We're planning on doing the biggest two this coming weekend, and the other two the following week.
I only tried wet plucking a couple of times, got feathers sticking to my fingers!
How do you pluck without handling the shaft of the feather (thinking we must be slightly at cross purposes)?
Boars can be very tame (we had a total of 4 over several years, all really nice natured), but do you want to breed from one whose mother rejected him?Flowers come in too many colours to see the world in black-and-white.
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Well, I made a paste containing half a bottle of Encona Hot Sauce (it's all we had - we don't 'do' real hot. ), filled a load of eggs and put them in the nest-boxes yesterday. All gone - scoffed! So, sorry to the Venerable Unca Snadge, the egg-eater was culled yesterday.
Today my egg count went up from 3 to 11.
I worked it out, and considering I sell eggs at £1 for six, she was eating more in a week than it costs me to feed them all!All the best - Glutton 4 Punishment
Freelance shrub butcher and weed removal operative.
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Vorwerk are really handsome birds. Lucky you. I have been told - no more breeds.....Our chicks have started hatching in the new chicktec incubator - its great as the top is like a space age dome so my little girl can sit and watch! 23 all fertile(only dubious about one maran egg which is such dark brown you just can't tell) 2 hatched so far. Sooty and Fluffy.
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Originally posted by Glutton4... View PostI talked of skinning ours, but himself likes a Roast, and would rather they were plucked. He can do one then, I reckon! We're planning on doing the biggest two this coming weekend, and the other two the following week.
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