Bought a plucker

[mtnhomechick]

There ya go..........show's ya how much I don't know.

I saw an attachment for an electric drill with rubber fingers on Ebay for about 30.00. If it actually works it might get in the nooks and crannies pretty good.

Might be the happy medium between totally automated and hand plucking. I suppose 30 bucks isn't too much of a stretch. Wonder if I'd be all full of feathers though

 

[JohnL11935]

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I watched a couple of videos on YouTube featuring these drill-end pluckers. One of them looked like they sat there all day long while the thing threw the feathers up in the air and all over themselves.

Now it seems to me that if they turned the drill around or even better, just worked from the other side of the dang thing, it would shoot the feathers straight down into a waiting trash can.

 

[jvls1942]

very interesting..

How far do the fingers protrude above the bars??
and how far apart are the bars?

I can tell you that with practice, you will learn how to remove those hard to reach feathers, also..

Try this: first pull the wing flight feathers off. then hold the chicken by a wing tip and feet do that wing, then the other wing then hold one foot and do that leg, then the other leg.. in other words concentrate first on the tough to get feathers.. by this time, most of the easy to get back feathers and breast feathers will be off,, now clean these feathers off and presto , you are finished and it only took 20 seconds..

from your picture,I would guess that you did not dunk the legs deep enough or long enough.. those feathers should come off if done right..

.......jiminwisc........