The Old Folks Home

[chickadoodles]

I love the pics of Maddie and her chickens and what a little sweetie taking you out to eat!

Tell her congrats on graduating!

 

[chickadoodles]

Lol! I'm definitely building a plucker before we butcher again, one of the drill style ones. I have a old craftsman table saw that the blade is run off a belt that goes to a pulley on a electric motor. I think it will work great as a plucker.

I would love to see it when you get it done. Pleaseeeee???/

 

[superchemicalgirl]

Lol! I'm definitely building a plucker before we butcher again, one of the drill style ones. I have a old craftsman table saw that the blade is run off a belt that goes to a pulley on a electric motor. I think it will work great as a plucker.

We made one out of PVC pipe end and some rubber. We've since put it onto an electric drill, which is attached with plumbers (metal) tape to a 2x4 then put onto the truck bed and held into place with sacks of sand.

Unfortunately it didn't help with the duck I swear those feathers were cemented in. I find chickens (scalded correctly) are very easy to pluck, and are just as fast by hand as with the plucker, so I don't use it often when processing.

 

[drumstick diva]

Do ducks go through a strong molt? Maybe you can wait till then to process and have fewer feathers. Okay, not one of my better ideas.

 

[Beer can]

I would love to see it when you get it done. Pleaseeeee???/ 

Plan on doing a thread on it, before and after. And a short vid of it in action. I've seen some cool drill ones on youtube, this should be similar but better I hope, and I won't have to buy a new drill saw was free.

 

[ozexpat]

Lol! I'm definitely building a plucker before we butcher again, one of the drill style ones. I have a old craftsman table saw that the blade is run off a belt that goes to a pulley on a electric motor. I think it will work great as a plucker.

I am a pheasant plucker

 

[chickadoodles]

Quote: SCG thanks for sharing this. It is an idea incase I can't get DH to build me one with a motor. lol
I am interested in one with a motor for turkey. They are large and my hands don't work so good. lol

 

[chickadoodles]

Quote: That would be cool thanks. We have watched all the videos on youtube and most don't show how to build them. I want one with a motor that I can hold and turn the birds to pluck probably.

 

[drumstick diva]

They need to breed chickens, ducks, turkeys etc. with zippers. You just unzip the outer coating (feathers) and discard - easy peasy. Why hasn't anyone thought of that?

 

[Beer can]

I want one of the washing machine ones but I can't find anyone who wants to get rid of a working one lol.