Plucking ducks

[triplecurler]

Does anyone still do it? I plucked a couple of the big mallards this year for something different, cooked them in the nu wave. Boy they we're good. I had them once in an orange marmalade and wish I could get that recipe.

Anyway, anyone still pluck ducks?

[chevyobsession]

I never have but I always wanted to. What's te best way to go about it? Is it the same as a chicken I assume. Dunk it in hot water then start plucking.

[gimpfinger]

I pluck my ringers.

[triplecurler]

I just starting pulling feathers, the. I used the torch to burns the little pin feathers.thought about making a duck plucker for next year.

[THe CRiPPLeR]

Plucked a few and smoked em. Damn they was good but that was a lot of work. One of them was filled with pin feathers.

[9manfan]

Pluck quite afew mallards later in the season and pluck the BTW's in early season, the BTW is the easiest duck to pluck, usually put 2 mallards in a throw away tin foil pan and put a couple apples in the cavity of the ducks, toss abunch of onions around them and add 1-2 cans of chicken broth, seal container up with tin foil and cook on low all day, very good eating.....

[Muskrat Hunter]

+1 for plucked teal can't beat it

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[lumbertick]

When I hunt with Bigdog we pluck the birds...when I hunt alone I usually just breast them. It works out well for me because it gives me a lot of options for cooking the birds.

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[greatwhitehunter3!]

I breast all of my birds at this point.

[duck_dude]

Why don't people pluck their birds? I understand in the early season with young, pinny birds, but you get a much better final product when cooking since the duck fat is rendered into the meat. It takes a little more time but it makes you feel a little better about not wasting much of the bird. Just my opinion. I probably end up plucking around 85% of the ducks I shoot. The exception is early season geese which all get breasted and legged.