I had a bird that was in such nice shape (at first I thought it had a heart attack cause I couldn't find a pellet hole in it) that I decided to pluck it. I will either roast or smoke the whole bird with the skin on so I want to get all the micro down feathers off.

Mostly I breast out my ducks so I am not sure how to deal with the last bits of downy feathers that would seem to take an extra hour to get out.

I was thinking I would brush over it with a butane kitchen torch really quickly and burn em off.

Will this work and if not what do you do when you pluck a bird?