This Spring while huntin in Ontario with Adrian and my cousin Mike we were lucky enough to harvest birds.We had to take them to a check station.Right outside the front door of the check station was a trailer owned by a local butcher shop.For $20 Canadian they would clean your bird.DANG! Now ya gotta remember $20 Canadian is only about $13 American.We wanted to deep fry these birds and that would mean pluckin em UGH! Well I handed the guy my money and he proceded to run the turkey over a pluckin machine.I' d never seen one before and it sure works slick.Anybody else ever clean a bird this way?

would love to see what that looked like[8D], having had plucked them long long
time ago, when I really had no one tell me right from wrong, and you do need the
skin on the bird if you want to deep fry it, Its been a 20 year learning process
first pluckin, then skinin,, now i dont even field dress a bird, I just take the breast
meat off both sides, poor bird looks funny after, but thats the only meat that any
good, god I love deep fryed turkey, but ive allways done store bought, let me
know how the wild bird was,

I have always wanted to try a deep-fried wild bird but I just can' t bring myself to cook him all at one time, I try to stretch him out and make him last awhile, know what I mean.

dad worked night turn the night before so i hunted alone the day i harvested my bird....i had no idea what to do...he woke up to take a look and a pic for me and i asked him.....hes like..well....do it like them pheasants you shot...thought about skinning it...but figured the ones at the stores always have skin.....so i plucked him....took a long while......but im sure he will be good when i get time to cook him....i had deepfried breast......man was it good....i think i might smoke mine....we still havent decided yet....but man...13 bucks to pluck a turkey.....thats dirt cheap!!

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norsemen ; the whole bird is great eating.take whats left and put into a crock pot with a big onion,a couple carrots,salt and pepper.cook overnite,remove meat from bones and use for dressing." You don' t know what you are missing" .some of the best rice dressing you ever ate.

if you want the reciept,let me know.my wife can cook it ,so your tounge will walk around on the table looking for more.[:-]

Tree climber, rice gravy, man that does sound good, [8D] but have to admit,
the taste diferance between a wild turkey and a butter ball is apples and oranges,
we all like to think our game animals are great, but all those chemicals they pump
into the store birds is what makes them mm, mm, goodbeen killin at least
1 spring bird for the last 20 years, and maybe only2 years that I dident get 2[]
but now I cut those breats up into strips and egg batter, flower, and bread crumbs
and a little habinaro hot sause, and deep fry them, with a little blue cheese on the
side, good stuff, usually on a morning I kill a bird, I' m allready late for work
to, so speed is important[]

I' ve had geese plucked by machine, but I' ve never seen it done with a turkey. I wish there was a plucking station close to where I turkey hunt; plucking turkeys in the West Texas brush country is no fun. I think they have more cactus and mesquite thorns in them than feathers.

the first couple of birds i did the boilin' and plucking thing, the only thing i didnt like was the wet feathers, they just stuck to everything.....so i didnt do it with the last one, it was cool, i had 2 dinners and i had the legs to make soup with, i' ll be doing it that way from now on.......if i had to do alot of birds, i' d probably invest in one of the plucker things, but i dont [:' (]

Your right Jim , that was slick as Clinton ,I would say ...BT

Cant say I' ve never seen a turkey done on a machine but ducks,geese,and all our quail we soak in hot water and put into a big turbin machine that picks them feathers right off!My turkeys when I pluckem which isn' t very often,usually for clients, I soak in steaming hot water for a few minutes or so and then rub the feathers right off!!I agree Jim a station like that would be pretty nifty especially if I was in a hurry!!!