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Livestock => Poultry & Waterfowl => Topic started by: sludge7 on April 20, 2025, 11:18:05 am

Title: Duck Wax
Post by: sludge7 on April 20, 2025, 11:18:05 am

Fed up with dry hand plucking and wanted to give wax plucking a try, but can't for the life of me find anywhere selling wax for plucking in smallholder-friendly quantities -- I don't really want to buy 25kg until I know it's working for me -- and even then, that could be more than I will go through in a reasonable length of time....

Can anybody point me in the direction of somewhere online in the UK to buy duck plucking paraffin wax?

Title: Re: Duck Wax
Post by: Richmond on April 21, 2025, 08:16:24 am

What sort of numbers of ducks are you dealing with? Have you tried scalding them?

Title: Re: Duck Wax
Post by: sludge7 on April 22, 2025, 10:17:10 am

REALLY small numbers -- half a dozen birds a year or so, for home consumption. 

I have tried scalding -- it's okay, but I'm not 100% sold.  Still want to try waxing to see if I like that better but can't find the **** wax! 

Title: Re: Duck Wax
Post by: SallyintNorth on April 22, 2025, 12:53:49 pm

maybe find the nearest processing plant and see if they'll sell you a bit?

Title: Re: Duck Wax
Post by: sludge7 on April 24, 2025, 10:09:03 am

Found a supplier so putting this here in case anybody else is looking for the same thing and searches this forum -- it's https://www.storeypoultrysupplies.co.uk/ -- very helpful friendly staff.