defeathering
Removing bird covering
Defeathering is the process of removing feathers from poultry, typically after slaughter during commercial processing.
The term applies both to the industrial operation and to the machines that perform it, which use rubber fingers or rotating drums to strip feathers from scalded birds.
The defeathering line processes thousands of chickens per hour.
Home processors may defeather by hand after dunking birds in hot water to loosen the plumage.
Extremely hot, burning
- pluckingRemoving by tugging
- eviscerationRemoving internal organs
- processingSystematic operation on data
- slaughterhouseAnimal killing facility
abattoir · butchery · scalder · picker · waterbath · shackle · stunner · conveyor
scalding
Extremely hot, burning
- pluckingRemoving by tugging
- eviscerationRemoving internal organs
- processingSystematic operation on data
slaughterhouse · abattoir · butchery · scalder · picker · waterbath · shackle · stunner · conveyor · mechanized
plucking
Removing by tugging
pinfeathers · yank · tug · extract · strip · denude · bareness · fingers · patience · singeing
scalding
Extremely hot, burning
- guttingRemoving internal organs
- butcheringProcessing animals into cuts
- dressingSauce for salads
trussing · brining · evisceration · cleaning · rinsing · chilling · singeing · pinning · hanging · aging
feather, feathers, feathery, feathered, feathering, featherless, unfeathered, featheriness, defeathered