Totally Plucking BBS

[1OldGI]

Appears to work like a champ
Janet's Whizbang Chicken Plucker In Action! - YouTube

[JeffR]

Yeah they work great - no joke. A local pheasant hunt club uses one like it to clean birds for those "lazy" hunters who don't want to do it themselves... So okay, I was tired that day! It was a long walk and the dog kept breaking point...

[nzFuzzy]

Toss in some marinade and it would massage it right in!

As for BBS... you'd either need a top quality detachable head -- OR -- be happy with BBS all over, except the top of your head

[32t]

Not impressive to me. This brings back memories of my father who was very good and much faster by hand. The trick is to get the water the right temperature and the feathers just fall of wiping them with your hand.

[nun2sharp]

Not impressive to me. This brings back memories of my father who was very good and much faster by hand. The trick is to get the water the right temperature and the feathers just fall of wiping them with your hand.

I dont know about you but I have spent entire days plucking chickens with and for family and friends, a machine that can do it sounds rather nice.

[32t]

I dont know about you but I have spent entire days plucking chickens with and for family and friends, a machine that can do it sounds rather nice.

To this day I won't buy chicken to eat. If you invite me over for a chicken dinner I would gladly accept the offer but I won't pay for it myself. The most extreme example I can remember is friends of my parents had a bunch of old laying hens. A couple of hundred at least but I can' remember the exact number. They were worth nothing and they came to an agreement that if our family helped we got over half of them. Old tough hens that you could only boil. Chicken salad or chicken soup for months. Farming we were broke but always had enough to eat. I would catch them and cut off their heads. My dad would pluck them and the rest cut and packaged. I miss those times and especially my father, except for eating chicken.

I was about to post this and thought there is one exception. I could go for a good meal of gizzards. I haven't had those in a long time!

Tim

[otherstar]

I have to agree with you. I can still remember my grandma (who was a small woman) de-feathering a chicken in about the same amount of time that machine got going. One good dip in scalding hot water was all she needed and that bird had no feathers in well less an 30 seconds.