Poultry plucking gloves?
My
Mom gave us these pet grooming gloves thinking we could try them out as
chicken pluckers.
Today was retirement day for
7 chickens we picked out last night and I think the gloves decreased
our processing time.
We first used the DIY
low tech chicken plucker
from last year for the primary pluck, and the gloves did well at
getting spots that the board plucker missed.
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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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I find these "Ninja" gloves to be fantastic:
http://www.ninjagloves.com/docs/ninja_hpt.htm
They're great as work gloves, and have lasted really well. They're rubberised, so when you're plucking wet chickens or ducks they really get a grip on the feathers. They're also tight-fitting, so you have the fine dexterity for picking individual feathers. Excellent for weeding too!
They only cost $10/pair here in Australia, so they're probably even cheaper in the US.