VEVOR Chicken Plucker, 20Inch Barrel Diameter 1500W 275R/min De-Feather Remover Poultry Machine,Heavy Duty Feather Plucking Machine

We raise our own meat chickens and butcher them ourselves. Before we used this chicken plucker, it would take us 3 plus hours to get four chickens ready for the freezer and it would take us at least half an hour to pluck the feathers out of one chicken.With this machine my husband was so impressed, he said it took about 30 seconds to a minute to pluck a chicken. Once the water got hot to dip the chicken in, it took about 2 hours to get 8 chickens plucked, cut up and wrapped ready for the freezer. We only done 8 a day because of the warm weather. Very good product. The only negative thing we could say is when my husband took the chicken plucker out of the box it was shipped in the machine was slightly dented, but did not have any effect on its performance.

This product could not be used for a turkey weighing more than about 14 lb. it worked great for chickens for a few months with light use. Then the motor died. We are currently trying to find a replacement motor. Any advice is welcome

This product makes my work very easy when preparing chicken to sell. It is very easy to use and leave no feathers on the chickens whenever they are at the correct temperature.

I am a small scale poultry exempt processor doing around 1000 birds per year plus some - primarily Cornish x but also spent layers, heritage birds, turkeys, etc for myself and other farmers. We have been using a Whiz Bang DIY for a couple of years but as our numbers have increased I felt we needed to plucker up. We expected this machine to arrived dented and I was apprehensive about its performance based on other reviews but my experience thus far after using it pretty non stop for three days and with various types of chickens (no turkeys yet) has been really good.Our unit arrived in perfect shape with a piece of wood secured to the outflow thus preventing any denting.I've plucked 2 birds at a time with great results. Carcass is clean but not beat up. Not sure it would handle 3-4 as in the description. I'm not a fan of the wheels as it contributes to excess movement while the unit is on...if the wheels locked that would be great - as it is I just chock the unit with cinder blocks to steady it. I like the sealed switch.As for clean up...the space between the plate and the drum is very close...you gotta keep the feathers from bunching or it will stop the plate from spinning and you'll burn the motor out. And be careful cleaning the feathers from the outflow. There is a sharp lip at the top where the metal is basically bent back and feathers do get into this area. Design flaw and I think another reviewer mentioned in and did some modification but if you are careful, you should be able to avoid slicing your hand open.So right now based on my experience with this machine, I'm happy with the purchase. Maybe I'll check back in November once we've run 1000 birds through it and are asking it to do turkeys...ETA - we’ve used this plucker for another season with zero incident or malfunction. 1800 broilers this year. It can’t do turkeys of any size.The rubber fingers will need to be replaced in the future…we keep the machine clean and covered but use is use and things deteriorate over time.This plucker has been the game changer for us and I would still recommend it.

These units are not cheap, none of them. This one is reasonably priced and did a fairly decent job of plucking. I was not impressed with the quality of workmanship when I received. Paper thin sheet metal on the collection box and had 3 screws broken during assembly with the broke off screw heads in the box. The design of the collection shoot is WRONG. The sheet metal is broke inward to prevent a cutting edge, but not crimped flat and does nothing but collect feathers that ball up and makes it very difficult to clean them out. The drum on the unit stopped spinning several times during our operation because of feathers clogging up on the bottom of the spinning drum and required cleaning. Overall the units plucks birds great. About 15-40 seconds with one bird, a little longer with two. Would have liked to see better quality workmanship at assembly and better quality materials in the choice of Sheetmetal chosen. So overall, I am satisfied with the purchase and made a huge difference processing birds. I will modify the discharge shoot to my liking.

Works great and big enough to handle a couple of chickens.

We bought this plucker 2 years ago when we first started out on our farm. We’ve plucked many foul with this machine. It’s quite the work horse! It was a GREAT investment for sure.

Horrible used it and the chicken that came out had bones broken through the skin and we were unable to use the chicken and had to toss it. Waste of money.