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I'm sure it's been brought up before.
I'm just thinking out loud here and wondering if anyone else has a drill attachment like this
https://www.amazon.ca/hicken-Plucker...209888&sr=8-16
with a goose taking a good half hour to pluck for me, as well as my own chickens, I wouldnt mind having something to make life easier for me.
anyone else use one of these?
Do not use it for "dry plucking "as you will have feathers all over the place.
I have something similar, bigger, that I built using a stainless steel 10 inch dia. drum, built into a cabinet with 1/4 hp. motor, the plucking /rubber fingers I bought at Berry Hill Farms in St. Thomas On.
I also have a hot water dunker built out of the lower half of a Hot Water Heater, for wetting the birds prior to plucking, when finished mine look like store bought birds.
I had a similar device to the one referenced by the OP. It was useless. I finally built one of the drum style ones, using a 5 gallon plastic pail as the drum. I also bought the fingers on line. I don't dunk my birds in hot water, never found it necessary. I am told it helps with chickens, never tried it. Mine works great, they also look like grocery store birds.
I made one of these https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G-pbRxIlpuw about 10 years ago works great. Bought the fingers online the rest sourced from scrap
I have one like that but with shorter black rubber fingers. I still rough pluck then use "magic fingers" to polish the bird. Great idea but really a 2 man job, one to hold drill the other the bird. If you are going to be cleaning a lot of birds I would buy or build a bigger better unit.
I would imagine you could step on the wings to keep the bird down?Quote:
Originally Posted by longpointer
Mount the drill to a bench, or in a vice.Quote:
Originally Posted by punkrockerpj
They dont work that great. You will still have to pluck most of the feathers off of the ducks. They are OK on chickens if you scald them first.
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