Homemade Chicken Plucker

  I'm going to butcher our own chickens this year, and needed to make a chicken plucker. I had up in my shop a spindle sander and made some changes to it to make a plucker out of it. I took the sandpaper of the part that had the brushes on it and built a box around it to keep the feathers down.

   I only did a few birds so far and it works pretty well. I would like to find a way to slow it down a bit because if I leave the bird in one place to long or push too hard, it will tear the skin a bit. With a little practice I'm sure I'll get the hang of it. With 50 birds to do, I'll have plenty of practice, that's for sure.