Does anyone have the automatied pluckers??

[BarefootMom]

We ordered some plucker fingers off of ebay and DH is going to try and make a small one. I would love to have the Whizbang Plucker...but who wants to spend that kind of money? lol

 

[Chickielady]

how much did you pay for the fingers and how many do you need

 

[BarefootMom]

this is what we ordered

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=180603675541&ssPageName=STRK:MEWNX:IT

We plan on just making a little one since we only have 25 chickens to process. DH is going to try and do something like this one:

 

[Firemenlovechicks]

I absolutely LOVE my Whizbang plucker! I do about 30 birds a couple of times a year. I can drop 3 full size chickens into it and have them all de-feathered in about 20 seconds. AND, it's big enough to do small turkeys (which we will have several to do this fall) I don't know about plucking a 50 pounder, but it will handle a 25 pound bird with NO problem! I will be processing again in about a month.... Can't wait to have FRESH, REAL chicken again!

Jeff

 

[BarefootMom]

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If we had the money we would invest--but if we did enough birds a year to make it worth it...we would have to invest in more freezers...and it just seems like a money pit. I still don't know where we are going to put these 25 that we are raising! We have Beef in our deep freezer, my grandma's, and my parents' freezers! Just picked up 500 lbs of beef about a month ago...finally got T-bone the steer butchered. AND I have 3 turkeys and 2 hams in there. lol

 

[phasianidae]

I made a Wizbang, its an amazing machine.

 

[Shanda]

I made a Wizbang, its an amazing machine

How?​

 

[Firemenlovechicks]

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If we had the money we would invest--but if we did enough birds a year to make it worth it...we would have to invest in more freezers...and it just seems like a money pit. I still don't know where we are going to put these 25 that we are raising! We have Beef in our deep freezer, my grandma's, and my parents' freezers! Just picked up 500 lbs of beef about a month ago...finally got T-bone the steer butchered. AND I have 3 turkeys and 2 hams in there. lol

You will be happy with whatever kind of plucker you make. It sure beats plucking by hand!

LOL

 

[PotterWatch]

We are currently getting 25 chicks every two weeks and hope to be increasing that number soon. We bought an EZ plucker after looking into the time and effort it would take to build a whizbang. I think a whizbang would work just as well as the plucker we purchased but I am happy with the one we have that we didn't have to put together at all.

 

[phasianidae]

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How?

Heres the book: http://whizbangbooks.blogspot.com/2007/12/wb21.html