Save Yourself From Backbreaking Labor

When you are raising chickens and other birds for meat, there is a lot more involved in your business than just caring for the chicks. At some point, your birds must be killed and plucked free of feathers so that other can enjoy them. If you have ever tried to pluck a chicken or other bird with your own hands, then you already know just how hard and time consuming it can be. Not to mention, bending over the birds to ensure that you have removed every feather, including the pesky and stubborn pinfeathers, can be painful and debilitating.

Fortunately, there are tools available to you that can make this job much easier for you. As a seasoned poultry farmer, you probably already know how important scalding the birds before plucking is, but you may not know that there is a scalder from Featherman that makes it easier than ever. This particular model gets the water temperature just right and makes it safer than ever for you to dip up to five birds at once. Already, you can see how tools can make your job easier for you.

Where life on the poultry farm really gets easier is when using the Featherman plucker. There are different sizes depending on the types of birds that you raise, but you’re guaranteed to get four or five birds into the drum at one time. In less than thirty seconds, all four or five birds will be plucked clean. That’s all it takes. And in that amount of time, you will have four or five birds smooth and ready for the next step. How long does it take for you to pluck just one bird by hand?

Making the decision to use modern technology shouldn’t be that hard, even if you’ve developed a system that you enjoy using without these new machines. There is no substitution for hard work, but anything that makes the job faster should be an easy decision. Where you may stop short is when it comes to paying for the new technology. Of course, it’s more expensive to rely on machines to do your job for you, but imagine how quickly you could recover the cost. When you can pluck over a hundred birds in the time it once took for you to pick one clean, then you can see how easy it would be to make your money back in a short amount of time.

By: Will Hanekom

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