PurpleChicken's and Perfectly_Polish's Chicken plucker- idea's needed!

[perfectly_polish]

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I had to watch that video a few times. It looked like that chicken came back to life.
I don't think they scalded it either.

Nope, doesn't look like they scalded it at all. And it looks like it did a better job then the whizbang.

 

[PurpleChicken]

$350 shipped. I am so broke. Hmmmm. Let me think about it.

I was reading on the Wizbang Yahoo group how people rent out their
pluckers for $50 a day. Maybe we can get it to pay for itself.

 

[perfectly_polish]

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Well since we are all going to be using it, I think it would fair if we all pitched in. It wouldn't be right if you bought and paid for it.

Maybe we could make a few of the drill kinds and one out of the washing machine and/or dryer for the same price or cheaper

 

[moodusnewchick]

I have a friend that needs to process about twenty cornish in about two weeks. She thought we'd have this local processor to rely on, but he has been unreachable. I bet she and the BYC member from Rhode Island would be reliable renters!

 

[moodusnewchick]

BTW my friend with the twenty so cornish has a farm. She may be interested in taking some range boilers from either of you if the 22 is too much.

 

[perfectly_polish]

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You can rent pluckers from processors? I think there's a processor in Salem, maybe they have one we could rent? The member here from RI did the scalding method, I don't think she has a plucker.

 

[moodusnewchick]

The guy who was supposed to be our processor used to work at that Salem Prime Meats...I wonder if it's the same person!

 

[perfectly_polish]

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Well it would defiantly pay for itself. We have over 100 birds to do, and it's probably take 3-4 days atleast to finish and clean every one of them. But will we be using it again after that? Maybe we should start thinking about next years meat bird order

 

[perfectly_polish]

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Yes, that's the same person! Salem Prime Cuts on Rt. 82!

 

[moodusnewchick]

He doesn't work there anymore, but maybe if we can get a hold of him, we can ask what kind of equipment he used and see if any is available.