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Drill powered plucker update

power plucker update

This drill powered plucker is still our preferred tool for getting feathers off chickens.

We retired 6 chickens today which equals about a half hour of time saved according to last year's estimations.



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About us: Anna Hess and Mark Hamilton spent over a decade living self-sufficiently in the mountains of Virginia before moving north to start over from scratch in the foothills of Ohio. They've experimented with permaculture, no-till gardening, trailersteading, home-based microbusinesses and much more, writing about their adventures in both blogs and books.



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What are those things on the end of your drill and how fast can I get them. This is the one thing we have trouble with. Plucking. We think you just solved our problem.

Thanks Donna

Comment by Anonymous Wed Jul 17 09:27:43 2013
Donna --- Ours came from http://www.powerplucker.com/. If you click on the link in the post, you'll see our original review, and the link to the source.
Comment by anna Wed Jul 17 15:00:56 2013





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