HomesteadEnglish · 9 months ago

It's harvest day. Here are a couple of pictures of our setup.

HomesteadEnglish · 9 months ago

We are harvesting 44 white rocks today. I mount three cones on my tractor bucket. I have cut them down to widen the mouths. I put the tractor between the chicken house and processing area.

On the left, a homemade scalder. It’s an electric water tank cut in half with the thermostat replaced with a commercial thermostat (the temperature can be set higher than a residential one) and a replacement element (110V versus 220V.)

In the center is our homemade plucker. It has a spray bar around the top and a solenoid valve that turns the water on when the plucker is turned on.

We process the birds through to ready for the freezer 9 at a time.

I can post detail pictures of the plucker or a video of anyone is interested.

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9 months ago
They’re made of vulcanized rubber. They’re called plucker fingers and I bought a box of them on Ebay.

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