Cleaning Ducks

I pluck most ducks. Filet breast out of geese 75% of time and pluck rest of time.

always pluck puddle ducks
skin/breast out divers...you can't pluck those anyway

I won't pluck all specks. If I filet the breast out though I will also remove the legs for gumbos

i pluck mine with a "plucker" i built. even the divers, that way i've got options on cooking them later.
also, all mack jr thinks its cool to blast feathers at his cousins when we come back after a hunt

Will usually pluck a Woodrow and a Teal, and sometimes a Speck depending on how many Snows got shot if it was a goose hunt. The rest are breasted.

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i pluck mine with a "plucker" i built. even the divers, that way i've got options on cooking them later. also, all mack jr thinks its cool to blast feathers at his cousins when we come back after a hunt

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I built a plucker that was easy to build, works great, and sucks the feathers down into a holding area to be emptied later. (Couple times a year) It does require having a few essential items that I had laying around that many folks won't. But for the time it takes me to pluck a couple dozen ducks, it's worth it if you have to buy the stuff.

I breast them all

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built a plucker that was easy to build, works great, and sucks the feathers down into a holding area to be emptied later. (Couple times a year) It does require having a few essential items that I had laying around that many folks won't. But for the time it takes me to pluck a couple dozen ducks, it's worth it if you have to buy the stuff.

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Build Details?


I breast and take the legs on almost all ducks. On rare occasion I will pluck wood ducks or puddlers if the breast is not all shot up. The wife does not like cooking them whole very often so I have thrown away plucked birds that went bad in freezer.

We only shoot trash

teal/wood ducks pluck

rest get breasted

ETA: unless I have enough to justify dropping them off at the cleaning lady, they pluck everything