In the interest of full disclosure, we got our plucker free so we could review it. But I still would have thought it was worth the price if I'd paid for it --- quite a time-saver!

Does it get off all the pin feathers, too? Any problems with the skin tearing? Do y'all do the ice bath step? I've only plucked a few birds, but it is definitely not a very enjoyable task for me. Then again, neither is the evisceration.

Mitsy --- It actually does quite a good job about taking off pin feathers. You'll still need to do a little bit of hand-plucking (depending on how well you scald and how good you get at moving the bird around the plucker fingers), but not much. I was impressed not to see any skin tearing --- I'd had some with our plucker board. No ice baths here, although I believe the manufacturer of the plucker fingers recommends it.

Actually, I find evisceration soothing, now that I've gotten the hang of it --- vastly superior to plucking. But I didn't feel that way for the first twenty birds or so, so I know where you're coming from!

I have found that ducks are much harder to pluck and our rented plucker equipment was not really worth it for ducks. Do you know how this power plucker does with ducks?

Susanne --- We did try our power plucker on ducks, and I'm afraid it wasn't very effective at all. The duck feathers were just too tenacious! I actually ended up skinning most of our ducks, even though I hated to lose the pastured fats, because plucking was too hard.