As I just posted, I butchered and one good thing came out of it. I had a drum chicken plucker before but sold it, it was a vast improvement over hand plucking. I built a new tub style plucker out of junk in the back forty, just ordered new fingers. Man did it work good, less then 20 seconds a bird, a few bird came out with absolutly no feathers, most had less then 5 feathers left to pluck off, tail or wing feathers. The other part is because you spray water as they are plucked the scalded layer of skin is removed and the chickens are gently scrubed clean. I had no broken bone or broken skin,(haha) the chicken were good too, they all came out perfect. Very impressed, as I built it for less then ***$, can not tell you as I may sell this one and build another. I did changes from the one I saw and I think that is why it worked so good. Mine is all alumimum. The feathers all come out in a neat little pile under the machine. It is so easy I would use it even if I was only doing 1 or 2 chickens. The chickens do not get beat up, or bruised as there is no blood left in them to cause bruising. Google (Whiz bang chicken pluckers) they are as good as they claim. They also sell all the parts, I got my fingers from them, not the cheap China ones off ebay. I paterned mine after theirs but made a few changes.
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Now if she had a plucker....I could help her. Sigh. This is wonderful that you were able to make one yourself. And yes, as you hone the workmanship, you keep us in mind. Have a most wonderful day, CynthiaM. 
