[Sca-cooks] Re: chicken plucking

[Pixel, Goddess and Queen]

On Fri, 11 Jan 2002, Tara Sersen Boroson wrote:

> >> The Hasidic slaughterhouse where I am posted at does uses water - cold
> >> water, to pluck their poulty. However, I believe that is because you have
> >> to
> >> use water when using an automatic picker, otherwise the picker will
> >> overheat, and the rubber fingers will melt. Since cold water isn't as
> >> good
> >> as hot to remove feathers, kosher poulty has been given a feather
> >> exemption
> >> by the USDA.
> >> On the other hand, the Ostrich Plant does dry pluck their birds by hand.
> >> Beatrix of Tanet
> >
> > The Ostrich plant?  Never considered they would have their own plant?  How
> > many ostriches work there?  Are they paid well?  What type of birds do they
> > process.  It seems a little kinky that a bigger bird would have a plant to
> > process a smaller version of their own kind...;~]
> > Stefan aka Olwen
>
>
> No, no, no.  This is where they *plant* ostriches!  You know, an ostrich
> nursery.  When they grow big enough, they dig them up to transplant on
> suburban lawns, like pink flamingos.
>
> -Magdalena
>

No, that would be a nursery. This is where they build ostriches. Is this
an ostrich manufacturing plant, or just an assembly plant and they ship
the parts in from somewhere else?

Marg...er, Muiredach