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Thanks! Yes, we are going to use the tractor if it's dry but if it gets swampy we have a prefab coop + run on an elevated area of the yard that we will keep adding wood chips to.

Thank you guys for all the helpful responses! I ended up buying this drill plucker and I will update you guys on how it works in probably 6 or 7 weeks when I process. Crossing my fingers that it wasn't a waste of money! :fl

We have 7 birds. I don't use Amazon so I've been looking on eBay. I am thinking this one. We're gonna try the drill attachment and if it's no good we'll hand-pluck.

Thanks! And mine were also Cornish X. Yeah I'm hoping maybe with having my first time out of the way it will get better.

Thanks! I like the gloves idea. We have a bunch of those lying around anyway so it wouldn't hurt to try. As for the pinning knife, we don't have a specified pinning knife but we did use dull kitchen knives. They worked well. I don't think the problem was really that they weren't coming out...

Right. And I've read that too. I thought it was better to do it when they weren't as young 6 weeks or younger) because they are still feathering out. I thought by doing it at 8 weeks I would be just fine. Maybe it was the strain of CX I had or something. I hope this time around is better.

Well they are not doing it correctly. They had the drill spinning so it was shooting the feathers upwards, but if you turn it so it's spinning everything toward the ground, you don't have that problem.

Thank you. Yeah, I don't want to skin because we like to eat the skin and I like to use the feathers for compost. We did hand-pluck last time but it took us FOREVER. The main feathers came off so easily. I think I got the scald right. But those darn pin feathers were just so time consuming...

Oh okay, I misunderstood how it worked. Well, it's something to consider.

Thanks! But actually it seems for about that price I can get a drum plucker. Unfortunately we're just not able to dish out that much right now. I did go on eBay and was able to find some tabletop pluckers, but it seemed like they were all for smaller birds. I doubt my Cornish X would fit in...

Table top plucker sounds great! Wish that was available for a good price. And yes, we plan to mount the drill to a table with a clamp. I have seen people on Youtube do it freehand, but I agree it sounds like it would get tiring to be holding up the bird with one hand and the drill with the...

Thank you!! Yeah, I'm not looking forward to the mess, but I'm trying to find a solution. We may put up a tent this time to do the plucking (we live in close quarters with our neighbors and city code says slaughter processing must be done out of sight) and I wonder if I could put a tarp down on...

We do small batches of meat birds so we can't justify (and can't afford right now) buying a nice drum plucker. We are gonna get the power drill attachment one to save a little time. For anyone who uses these, what brand do you use and do you recommend it? I was looking at this one but there are...