Chicken Feather Cleaning Machine

Chicken feathers are removed at a poultry facility by placing the dead bird into a rotating drum outfitted with rubber-like fingers that remove feathers through abrasion. Plucking a chicken for butchering is time-consuming and can be difficult.A Defeathering machine is a tool used to remove feathers from poultry birds after they have been slaughtered. They are used for cockerels, broilers, turkeys, old layers, e.t.c.Once your water has reached the temperature, submerge the bird headfirst in the water for 30 - 45 seconds. Swish the bird around to make sure that the water is able to reach all of the follicles of the feathers. You can tell that the feathers have been loosened by pulling a few of the feathers from the tail or wing.