Drill powered plucking
We tested a new drill
powered plucking device today.
Anna and I retired 5 chickens
this morning, and the Power Plucker made that process go faster than
our DIY
plucking board. Once we
got the hang of using the right speed and angle it went even faster.
Safety glasses and leather gloves are recommended.
It seems to be built to last
and the price is only 30 dollars. Big thanks to Bradley for taking a
break from building to be our photographer.
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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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Mitsy --- It actually does quite a good job about taking off pin feathers. You'll still need to do a little bit of hand-plucking (depending on how well you scald and how good you get at moving the bird around the plucker fingers), but not much. I was impressed not to see any skin tearing --- I'd had some with our plucker board. No ice baths here, although I believe the manufacturer of the plucker fingers recommends it.
Actually, I find evisceration soothing, now that I've gotten the hang of it --- vastly superior to plucking.
But I didn't feel that way for the first twenty birds or so, so I know where you're coming from!