[Sca-cooks] automatic chicken plucker

[Michael Newton]

----- Original Message -----
From: "Olwen the Odd" <olwentheodd at hotmail.com>
To: <sca-cooks at ansteorra.org>
Sent: Thursday, January 10, 2002 10:31 AM
Subject: Re: [Sca-cooks] automatic chicken plucker


>Olwentheodd at hotmail.com writes:
I have no idea what an Epilady thing is so I can't tell you if it's the
same.  An automatic chicken plucker is a machine that looks a little like an
old mimeograph machine, in that it has a largeish drum that turns.  The drum
has a bunch of finger length rubber "fingers" on it.  You plug it in, turn
it on, scald your dead birds and hold them close enough to the "fingers" so
as to have the feathers knocked off.  You must keep rotating the bird to
different positions and have to keep steady on the proximity to the
"fingers" else you get the skin all ripped or else you end up having to do a
lot of hand plucking for cleanup.  It's quite a site actually.  Feathers,
blood and sweat flying everywhere!
Olwen

Which is a _much_ smaller version of  what the plant uses to pluck their
birds. Agri has three plucking machines in a row and another that's set to
get those feathers around the hocks. You're right about the feathers flying!
I'm always glad that as a Inspector, I'm not the one who has to clean up the
picker room.
Beatrix of Tanet


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