Need help with a bird plucker

[Bootlipkiller]

The oils in dick make them water resistant and the oils turn into a slippery mess. The the rubber fingers can't grab the feathers as well. Your videos are all chickens that pluck easier.

The oils in wut?

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[Bootlipkiller]

This summer somebody gave me an old duck plucker they had lying around. I tried using this evil sonovabitch on last weekends honkers and it was a total failure. I put a garbage bag over what I assumed was the exhaust end and in only a few seconds I was standing in a cloud of down. Next step I have the kid aim the air compressor nozzle into the plucker hoping a draft will push the feathers into the bag - negative. Im even more covered.
So we figure this pos needs suction to work so I clean out my shop vac and hook it up. Start in on a bird and its going great - no more feathers flying. I manage to strip about a 4 X 6 inch area on the first goose when the vacuum has a total loss of suction, take it apart and it completely plugged.

So does anyone have any experience with one of these things where it actually works?

Believe it or not, I have experience. We bought a "Duck-a-minit" and it worked great for about 10 ducks and then needed new fingers or whatever they are called. Turned out it was cheaper to just drop the birds off at a place that picked them and drink beer until they were plucked, wrapped and chilled.

KC bar in Gridley?


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[Flightstopper]

The oils in dick make them water resistant and the oils turn into a slippery mess. The the rubber fingers can't grab the feathers as well. Your videos are all chickens that pluck easier.

The oils in wut?

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Oh my. ... damn you auto correct!

[Tiler_J]

Oh, also, wet birds don't pluck as easy as dry birds.

Different style plucker, besides being a chicken not a duck. With those type of pluckers they usually dip the birds in boiling water first also to help loosen the feathers. I have never tried the boiling water trick, but I have been plucking ducks with a plucker for almost 30 years and in my experience a dry bird works better.

[3legged_lab]

But what are your experiences with the "dick oils"

[Tiler_J]

But what are your experiences with the "dick oils"

From hands on experience, this stuff works ok.

[jehler]

Scold your birds in 170 degree water that has a fair squirt of dawn dish soap, thrash them around in the water until a wing feather pulls out easy, then pluck

[3legged_lab]

Scold your birds in 170 degree water that has a fair squirt of dawn dish soap, thrash them around in the water until a wing feather pulls out easy, then pluck

The issue I'm having isn't feathers coming off, its where they go after they come off.

[assateague]

Just take the guard off completely and do it on the edge of your property closest to the neighbors house.

[capt1972]

Just take the guard off completely and do it on the edge of your property closest to the neighbors house.

That reminds me of the Saturdays that I take the trash to the dump and all the goose and duck feathers blow out of the barrels in the back of the truck and cover the cars behind me.

Makes me laugh every time!

[The Duck Hammer]

I love doing stuff like that. It's funny.


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[RonE]

I no longer pluck ducks, I skin the breast and fillet each side and throw the rest away unless someone wants the gizzards.

[3legged_lab]

Just take the guard off completely and do it on the edge of your property closest to the neighbors house.

Not a bad way to go but the whole purpose of using the plucker is to get the feathers off quicker - and save them.
Last season I hand plucked and saved enough to make a pillow. There is a place close to here that is a duck/goose processor, they sell pillows for $100 each and down comforters for $2K.
My pillow cost me 10 bucks.

[The Duck Hammer]

Just take the guard off completely and do it on the edge of your property closest to the neighbors house.

Not a bad way to go but the whole purpose of using the plucker is to get the feathers off quicker - and save them.
Last season I hand plucked and saved enough to make a pillow. There is a place close to here that is a duck/goose processor, they sell pillows for $100 each and down comforters for $2K.
My pillow cost me 10 bucks.

Hope you got all the mites out of it first...


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[Bootlipkiller]

Just take the guard off completely and do it on the edge of your property closest to the neighbors house.

Not a bad way to go but the whole purpose of using the plucker is to get the feathers off quicker - and save them.
Last season I hand plucked and saved enough to make a pillow. There is a place close to here that is a duck/goose processor, they sell pillows for $100 each and down comforters for $2K.
My pillow cost me 10 bucks.

You talking about the crazy old bat on dirty jobs in tule lake.


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[3legged_lab]

Just take the guard off completely and do it on the edge of your property closest to the neighbors house.

Not a bad way to go but the whole purpose of using the plucker is to get the feathers off quicker - and save them.
Last season I hand plucked and saved enough to make a pillow. There is a place close to here that is a duck/goose processor, they sell pillows for $100 each and down comforters for $2K.
My pillow cost me 10 bucks.

Hope you got all the mites out of it first...


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That's why I spent money at the dry cleaner.

Just take the guard off completely and do it on the edge of your property closest to the neighbors house.

Not a bad way to go but the whole purpose of using the plucker is to get the feathers off quicker - and save them.
Last season I hand plucked and saved enough to make a pillow. There is a place close to here that is a duck/goose processor, they sell pillows for $100 each and down comforters for $2K.
My pillow cost me 10 bucks.

You talking about the crazy old bat on dirty jobs in tule lake.


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Haha. Trudy.

[Bootlipkiller]

Just take the guard off completely and do it on the edge of your property closest to the neighbors house.

Not a bad way to go but the whole purpose of using the plucker is to get the feathers off quicker - and save them.
Last season I hand plucked and saved enough to make a pillow. There is a place close to here that is a duck/goose processor, they sell pillows for $100 each and down comforters for $2K.
My pillow cost me 10 bucks.

Hope you got all the mites out of it first...
Thats why I spent money at the dry cleaner.

Sent from my Vox Mortem

Just take the guard off completely and do it on the edge of your property closest to the neighbors house.

Not a bad way to go but the whole purpose of using the plucker is to get the feathers off quicker - and save them.
Last season I hand plucked and saved enough to make a pillow. There is a place close to here that is a duck/goose processor, they sell pillows for $100 each and down comforters for $2K.
My pillow cost me 10 bucks.

You talking about the crazy old bat on dirty jobs in tule lake.


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Haha. Trudy.

Best episode of dirty jobs ever! Love the part when they are talking to the guide! His smug I'm a guide attitude slapped me in the face like the odor of burnt hair and Indian poop even through the TV.


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[Tiler_J]

Just take the guard off completely and do it on the edge of your property closest to the neighbors house.

Not a bad way to go but the whole purpose of using the plucker is to get the feathers off quicker - and save them.
Last season I hand plucked and saved enough to make a pillow. There is a place close to here that is a duck/goose processor, they sell pillows for $100 each and down comforters for $2K.
My pillow cost me 10 bucks.

How much do you want to get? We bag up and throw away all our feathers near the end of the season. I can probably get you a few garbage bags full.

[Feelin' Fowl]

Any idea how many gooses it takes to make a big ass comforter? That would be cool...

[The Duck Hammer]

Any idea how many gooses it takes to make a big ass comforter? That would be cool...

186.39 but that's only if you use speckle bellies.


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[Feelin' Fowl]

Any idea how many gooses it takes to make a big ass comforter? That would be cool...

186.39 but that's only if you use speckle bellies.


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I don't see specks. Figure out the math on Canadians for me chicken boy!

[Bootlipkiller]

Any idea how many gooses it takes to make a big ass comforter? That would be cool...

186.39 but that's only if you use speckle bellies.


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I don't see specks. Figure out the math on Canadians for me chicken boy!

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[The Duck Hammer]

Any idea how many gooses it takes to make a big ass comforter? That would be cool...

186.39 but that's only if you use speckle bellies.


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I don't see specks. Figure out the math on Canadians for me chicken boy!

Approximately 107.68 but they must be 20+ pounders for it to work out correctly.


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[3legged_lab]

Chicken feather pillows suck butt.

[3legged_lab]

Just take the guard off completely and do it on the edge of your property closest to the neighbors house.

Not a bad way to go but the whole purpose of using the plucker is to get the feathers off quicker - and save them.
Last season I hand plucked and saved enough to make a pillow. There is a place close to here that is a duck/goose processor, they sell pillows for $100 each and down comforters for $2K.
My pillow cost me 10 bucks.

How much do you want to get? We bag up and throw away all our feathers near the end of the season. I can probably get you a few garbage bags full.

I'll talk to you about this before the wch.

[3legged_lab]

Any idea how many gooses it takes to make a big ass comforter? That would be cool...

From Tule goose's website:
The 10 pound Canadian Geese each offers approximately six ounces of feathers, 20% of which is down. It takes 40-54 geese to provide enough down for one king-size comforter, slightly less for a pillow.

And I was wrong, a comforter costs $900.

[3legged_lab]

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Looks like there is a nearly identical one in the new Macks PW catalog, says it does not include the necessary shop vac. Spendy bastard too.

[The Duck Hammer]

Wow, what a deal

[aunt betty]

Make a secondary filter/feather collection barrel.

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[Juice Box]

Any idea how many gooses it takes to make a big ass comforter? That would be cool...

186.39 but that's only if you use speckle bellies.


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Are those mature or juvenile speckle bellies?