YO GEORGIANS! :)

[Tabasco Jack]

Great set up you've got there. Too bad you can't get your visitors to be of any help. haha

Well, there's three kinds of people. Those who makes things happen, those who watch things happen and those who wonder what's happening.

 

[PapaChaz]

hey does anyone have a barred rock rooster they'll part with? I know someone who knows someone who wants one. LOL

let me know and I'll forward the info to her

 

[GAMarans]

Well, there's three kinds of people. Those who makes things happen, those who watch things happen and those who wonder what's happening.

I was watching things happen to see if I would change how I make things happen.

That counts, right? Hahaha

 

[choonook]

Well, Betty either keeps reopening the small wound remaining on her head by getting into things or she's just asking for trouble. Found her in the main run and coop today. Seems she's tired of being an outcast. Of course, I doubt she'll be sleeping there. However, I had to treat her with Blu-Kote and EMT cream again...and, of course, I can't keep it off of me. Zena or Pocahontas?? Gotta come up with something better than chicken nurse for tomorrow...lol! Really been eying my muffin cups, empty pudding containers, etc to make a helmet for her...she won't give up!!

 

[katsdar]

hey does anyone have a barred rock rooster they'll part with? I know someone who knows someone who wants one. LOL

let me know and I'll forward the info to her

I do, if you haven't gotten one yet, he is a younger boy

Well, Betty either keeps reopening the small wound remaining on her head by getting into things or she's just asking for trouble. Found her in the main run and coop today. Seems she's tired of being an outcast. Of course, I doubt she'll be sleeping there. However, I had to treat her with Blu-Kote and EMT cream again...and, of course, I can't keep it off of me. Zena or Pocahontas?? Gotta come up with something better than chicken nurse for tomorrow...lol! Really been eying my muffin cups, empty pudding containers, etc to make a helmet for her...she won't give up!!

lol, I bet if you use the alumium muffin cup and put a paper over the top and some yarn would work,

 

[PapaChaz]

I do, if you haven't gotten one yet, he is a younger boy

I'll pass the word, how young is 'younger'? she didn't specify an age, just that she knows someone who wants one. what kind of price range should I tell her?

 

[katsdar]

I'll pass the word, how young is 'younger'? she didn't specify an age, just that she knows someone who wants one. what kind of price range should I tell her?

sent you a pm

 

[JoshFig]

So the fall processing has started with culling older layers and young cockerels. After years of working off of the top of a drum and the picnic table I finally got the setup going. Makes it so much easier.

That is a beautiful setup. Did you build the plucker from a kit, from scratch or buy it?

 

[Tabasco Jack]

That is a beautiful setup. Did you build the plucker from a kit, from scratch or buy it?

I bought the Whizbang plucker book first. Studied it closely then bought a kit (fingers, plate and pillow blocks) from Herrick Kimball.
I didn't think that making the plate would last as long or be as sturdy and since I was getting that, just made sense to get the rest of the parts also. I had a motor, all the electrical fittings, a drum, some of the lumber and hardware already.

Also had some scrap iron that I cut and made wheel mounts for it.

Even if you plan to build one from scratch, I highly recommend you spend the $15 for his book.

 

[JoshFig]

I have a motor. Lots of kits w/ the plate, shaft and pulley set on ebay. Its tempting, but I don't see myself plucking enough chickens to make it worth it.

I did my first rooster by hand last weekend - wasn't too bad doing one, but if I was doing a bunch a plucker would be great to have.