RE: Feather plucker
If your picker will not dry pick then you will have to scald them. After you slop them around in soapy hot water then you will have to scald them in clean water to get the soap out. The soap is to cut the oil in the feathers so that you can get the scalding water to reach the skin. This scalding water has to be about 160 degrees and again you slop the bird up and down inthe water till the feathers loosen up, then run them against the picker fingers. I usually use my picker as soon as I get home from hunting. The sooner you use the picker the easier it goes. I just dry pick with my picker and the only feathers it does not take is if they are really blood soaked.