Anyone seen this plucker??

trifecta said:

So, we are at the time of year where we have the harder aspect of chicken math. We have 4 spare cockerels of various breeds going to freezer camp in the next 2ish weeks and I'm trying to get all my supplies together. I do have a drill style plucker, but could never really seem to get it to work properly, so have previously just hand plucked. DH is a bit of a wuss if any tiny amount of anything possibly ever resembling a feather remains on the beast. So, I've been looking for a plucker here and there to see if I could get one at a decent price. Long term we will likely be processing 50ish birds per year in small groups (I'm thinking batches of 12-15), so not a ton, but enough that a plucker could make the job much more convenient.

Today I stumbled across this gem on ebay:
http://www.ebay.com.au/itm/Small-Fe...d4458bba108ef8c1972d6b&pid=100505&rk=1&rkt=1&

It looks like it would be too small to do most standard roosters. I suspect its marginal quality. But perhaps someone on here has tried it??

Cheers
Natalie

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perchie.girl said:

It is rather small. ""Used for: Quail, pigeon, guinea fowl, bantam chicken and other similar sized birds"" And from the description of its use you don't scald the bird first. Instead you wet the feathers.... You can make a decent plucker with a piece of PVC a few Rubber straps from Bungee cord (the all rubber kind) for a few dollars. this is one but there are many many others on YouTube..... There are also plans right here for different kinds ranging from Washtub conversion to the drill motor version. good luck. I plan on doing this in future. But I also plan to opt to skin the bird because I want to home can the meat. deb

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Birdinhand said:

I looked at this one and the reviews are pretty bad, at least with respect to actually trying to use it for chickens.  I bought the whizbang build book but just couldn't bring myself to venture into such an involved project that actually ends up costing in the $700 range.  someone on this board turned me on to the yardbird 1.5 hp chicken plucker, it's on sale for $400 and has great reviews.  I used a drill style plucker like the one listed above and it works OK for a few birds but it flings chicken funk and feathers all over the place and I ended up pretty well tarred and feathered and it was hard on my wrist.  the yardbird looks like the best of the lower cost pluckers so I bought one.  I'll do a review next month after we harvest our 37 CX, it does two birds at a time in about 20 seconds.

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Birdinhand said:

I went with the yard Bird and loved it.

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Fairview01 said:

Well that's good to hear. I just bought one and will.be putting it to use this weekend. Ill post before and after pics.

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