Tested the chicken plucker

[Dogfish]

I copied the low budget chicken plucker, as I had an injured CX that I culled Saturday.

 

[mike67909]

so whats your opinion of it? The second video link didn't work for me.

 

[Dogfish]

The links are all the same. Just tried different methods of linking. I suck at You tube.

As far as funtion, the plucker worked better than I thought it would. About a minute to get the body completely plucked, but the wings didn't completely pluck out as the guy I copied had stated. If someone had 10 or 15 birds, it would certainly be a viable method of defeathering. One I had the speed squared away, I would just attach the cord to a heavy duty power strip for my on & off. There wasn't that much spatter, but I did get a few feathers on me. If you had two people, one scalding and plucking, and another handing off birds and finish plucking, you could create a pile of birds rather quickly. Most of the feathers were in a 2x3 area.

Scalding was also very easy, and I used a pair of tongs to get a good dunk and swish. I just used my turkey fryer, heated to 150, added some dish soap, just a few drops. Gutting was 20 seconds, as I've done hundreds of ducks and pheasant. I'll be plucking pheasants from now on, instead of breasting them out.

 

[mike67909]

I think I am going to try it. I don't do enough birds to justify building a whizbang but this looks like a good alternative for my batches of 25 chickens.

Thanks

 

[wanderseek]

WHAT ARE THE PARTS YOU NEED FOR THIS???!!!! Where do I get what is needed to make one of these dandies? I want a whiz bang too, bit it's waaaaaay too expensive and, like the previous poster said, I cannot justify building one for my small quantities of chickens that will be plucked. Thanks in advance for sharing the info needed for a less expensive drill plucker.