skinning tip

[fishy steve]

Hotwax works to Steve .

ya have herd of it, but never tried it... have hot water readily available and dont do enough waterfowl to need to be more efficent... lucky if i do one or 2 a year lol

[rossh]

I remember along time ago mom would buy chickens from the butcher still had pin feathers & bag of extras inside . She used gas stove to singe them off . Could smell it when I come home from school . Use a torch myself on my free roam chickens .

[MikePal]

Hotwax works to Steve .Never tried it on wolves,bear,deer or moose though .

I know it works on my wife's legs

[400bigbear]

I know it works on my wife's legs

Your a man of many talents Mike .

[MikePal]

of those small propane or butane torches, and just quickly scald them off... make sure not to cook the meat though...

I've used a torch for many years, some Metis guy from Manitoba showed me that tip a long time ago. Works especially well with deer hair before you start to butcher it. Just have to keep it moving fast over the meat.

Not so good on the pin feathers of Wild Turkey, allot of the pins are black and stick inside the meat. So when you burn back the feathers, it looks like the bird if covered in black head pimples

[Pat32rf]

Pins got pulled with pliers, then my grandfather would hold up the turkey and Nana would burn off the hairs with a rolled up newspaper. Birch bark left black soot...

[oldbill]

I've used 50/50 water and vinegar to wipe meat that's covered in cut hairs. Not to remove still rooted hairs but to simply wipe loose hair off of finished meat. The vinegar seems to help cut the surface tension better than water alone.

For all of our chickens and turkeys we hot dip, pluck and torch. I skin most of the grouse and woodcock I take...