SuperHandy Chicken Plucker 1HP 120VAC - Electric Stainless Steel Poultry Processing Machine with 92 Soft Fingers, 20" Drum, GFCI Safety & Waterproof Design, Transport Wheels

This is a lie saver! We only do 10 to 20 chickens each year, and this cut the time way down and worked great!

I’ve processed roughly 20 birds with this unit and it has worked very well.

Putting together the plucker was pretty easy, although the manual is out of date. When attaching the legs with the wheels, the left and right are labeled wrong, but it’s easy to figure out the right orientation. Also, it came with the proximity sensor installed, so I either I was sent a used one or it now comes installed.The plucker works pretty well, and would work well for a few birds l, but I would recommend for a lot of processing. Here are my issues…The body of the plucker is a little flimsy. It’s mostly fine when it’s installed but can easily bend when your cleaning it. I’d like it to be made with a little thicker metal. To improve the existing design, an extra piece of metal could be added at the bottom of the body to give it a little more rigidity without adding too much weight or cost to the product. The next issue is the number of fingers. If your only doing one bird, sometimes a number of the feathers didn’t get plucked. We were doing roosters who were 14 months old. Since they were a little larger we did them one by one and with the feet and head on, the bird would get stuck in the fingers. We started to remove the feet and head and getting stuck no longer was an issue. But I’d recommend you always do at least two birds at a time if they are broilers or 6-10 months old. If this plucker had more fingers, then the birds wouldn’t have gotten stuck. Another issue is the placement of the on/off switch. It’s a common location on many pluckers, but it would be a great option to have an optional remote on/off switch that could be mounted to the side of the base or something. Being 6’2” tall, it was a pain having to kneel down and find the switch. There are others pluckers that have this on the power cord, but I wasn’t comfortable with their online presence and support. Another thing would be to have a longer power cord, at least another 3’, which would move the electrical away from where your spraying water into the plucker.My big recommendation is to clean and completely dry the plucker when done using. I took off the body and made sure there were no feathers stuck in the fingers and did the same for the base plate. (Don’t loose the key on the spindle.) To make sure the plucker was completely dry, I used an air compressor (not a can of air) to blow out all the water from under the fingers, the seam on the tank AND the rivets. The seam is not welded along the entire length and rivets are not sealed, and will accumulate water making it easy to start rusting. We will probably get some mineral oil (food safe) and lightly coat the edge of the seam and the rivets to prevent them from rusting. For storage, I covered with an extra large contractor trash bag and set a small “damp-rid” container inside to help absorb any remaining moisture while being stored in the barn.Overall, it’s a decent machine for someone doing maybe less than 30-40 birds a year as long as you completely clean and store it properly. In my opinion, it’s also worth it to get the additional warranty from Amazon. Mechanical items like this can easily die for no reason.

Used for the first time a few weeks ago, this product made processing the poultry much quicker than the usual method of hand plucking. It was easy to put together and use and was easy to clean afterwards as well. I like that it has wheels on it so it's much easier to move around and store.

We finally got around to butchering our broilers and used our plucker. I could not be more pleased with it. Proper scalding makes all the difference in the world. We bathed the killed birds in 145 degree water for 90 seconds and the plucking went very well. My daughter wanted to keep the feet and the plucker skinned those with ease. Just make sure the feet are scalded as well. We did 50 birds total and just put one bird at a time in the machine. I tried two birds and it worked fine but at the pace we were processing, 1 bird at a time was easiest to manage. I did not try more than two birds so I can't comment on capacity. Clean-up is easy although feathers do get stuck around the base of the rubber fingers so if you want to get it really clean, you need to manually remove those.

It works ok. I can only fit 1 10lb bird at a time. I tried 2 at a time and they get stuck and motor doesn’t spin. Absolutely no turkey will fit. That’s is false advertising. It’s not fast spinning but it does the job good enough. If you have a lot of small birds from 5-10 lbs it helps to get them done faster. It’s just not what I was expecting. I thought I could do bigger birds by the description. False....Update: I changed my 2 stars to 1 star because seller contacted me and asked what they can do to help. I told them and they don't want to help. So know that this is small machine. If you need help seller is not helpfull.

We raised meat chickens this year and this guy got us through 50 of them nicely and also a large Muscovy duck.Pros:+Wheels are great for transporting to processing site.+ Drum is removable, and spraying clears it up easily.Cons:-the duck feathers were so large it clogged the drain and stopped the motor. So we turned it off and removed the blockages and it resumed nicely.-switch is under the machine, so there's definite over spray that happens.-cord could be longer. We elevated the extension cord connection to keep it clear of water/debris.Towards the end of our processing season for some reason it failed to remove all feathers from ducks or chickens. This might be purely user error, I'm not sure. So we had to finish hand plucking to varying degrees, annoying, but 70-90% was done by the machine so better than nothing.We have other friends who got a brand by Vevor and after their first use the motor burned up. So far ours hasn't wavered. I would buy this again.