PRO Setup with Manual Dunker & Chill Tank

Product Description

Get the Featherman PRO Setup with Manual Dunker & Chill Tank—high-quality poultry processing machinery designed for efficiency and durability.

PRO Plucker:

Chicken Plucking made easy! The Featherman PRO plucker is our best-selling chicken plucker and a must-have piece of poultry processing machinery for every poultry processor to increase processing efficiency. Simply scald chickens, then drop 4 or 5 birds into the tub and in 20-30 seconds or less, the birds will be picked clean. No pin feathers, no backache. Simple to use & easy to clean. Capable of plucking 3-50 lb. of chicken or turkey in less than 1 minute! Our Featherman PRO plucker is primarily for chickens, but it can handle turkeys & game-birds, too. We also offer separate specialty pluckers for turkeys, the PRO XL Plucker and game-birds, the Gamebird Plucker.

Another notable feature of the Featherman PRO plucker is the feather chute. Our chute keeps feathers contained in one spot, offering quick and easy clean-up! The water spray ring gives the birds an even spray of cold water, for a quick feather release and the waterproof switch ensures operation safety. 

Features:

• 119 ultra-soft fingers
• 1 HP motor
• Tub & housing is USDA food-grade plastic
• Plastic is high-density & UV-resistant
• Direct drive speed reducer (no belts!)
• Waterproof ON/OFF switch
• Easy clean-up feather chute
• Water spray ring
• Made in the USA
• 1-year warranty
• Optional Caster Kit
• Optional Foot Switch

Scalder:

The goal: No pin feathers. Period. This only happens with a perfect scald. The Featherman stainless scalder holds a constant water temperature to help you achieve that perfect scald. Made of 16 gauge stainless steel with a 100,000 BTU propane burner, temperature control within a 5-degree range, and sized to scald 4 chickens at a time. Works well for turkeys too! Either hand dunk birds or purchase a Manual Dunker or Automated Roto Dunker.

Watch our Featherman stainless scalder in action here.*

Features:

• 16 gauge stainless steel 
• 100,000 BTU propane burner
• Automatic temperature control
• 48-gallon water capacity
• Made in the USA
• 1-year warranty

Manual Dunker with Shackle:

This Dunker is great for a team that doesn’t want to monitor water temperature and has the manpower to put birds on the shackles and dunk them. The Manual Dunker with Shackle mounts on the Featherman Scalder in about 5 seconds. Mounts on the corner and locks into place. No tools are required! The dunking arm pivots left & right, making loading and unloading birds easy. Any load of poultry can be neutrally balanced. Adjustable spring tension allows for effortless dunking. The up-and-down action aids water penetration to loosen feathers. Shackle can hold up to 1-5 broilers of any weight at one time. The Manual Dunker with Shackle combo is also compatible with most ducks and turkeys.

Features:

• Stainless steel construction
• Heavy-duty, adjustable spring tension
• Holds up to 5 broilers
• Mounts on scalder and locks into place
• Dunking arm pivots left & right
• Works with chickens, turkeys, & ducks
• No tools required
• Made in the USA
• 1-year warranty

Kill Stand 8 with Cones:

Efficient, humane, and easy-cleaning, our stainless steel Kill Stand 8 with Cones speeds up the processing and eases the handling of birds at the front end of your processing line. Insufficient bleed-out time is a bottleneck issue that can really slow down processing, our kill cone stand helps mitigate this.

“It was the only thing keeping us from 200 birds per hour,” says Joel Salatin.

Especially designed no back-out cones fit compactly around the swiveling stand of stainless steel and are easy to clean. The high density, UV-resistant, molded plastic trough below catches blood for disposal.

Features:

• Includes (8) Stainless Steel Broiler Cones
• Stainless steel construction
• Our kill cone stand rotates instead of the operator
• Blood is caught in the high density, UV-resistant, molded plastic trough below
• Can hold (8) of our Stainless Gamebird Cones
• Can hold (4) of our Stainless Small Turkey Cones or Stainless Large Turkey Cones**
• Made in the USA
• 1-year warranty

Chill Tank:

The Featherman Chill Tank is a large volume, custom-made tank for chilling poultry. Poultry growers know that to ensure tender poultry, chill time before freezing is essential. Our chill tank provides the space to chill large batches of birds with a simple ball valve drain. Convenient no tool support bars hook to the top lip of the chill tank providing necessary support. The tank is custom molded from high-density, UV-resistant, USDA food-grade molded plastic making it both durable & easy to clean.

Features:

• 220-gallon capacity
• Chill up to 200 birds***
• USDA food-grade plastic
• Plastic is high-density & UV-resistant
• 3 stainless steel support braces
• 1” PVC drain valve
• Made in the USA
• 1-year warranty

 

Wanting to maximize production speeds? Our PRO-XL Plucker, commercial-grade Scalder-PRO, & high-production 18 Cone Kill Stand can do this for you! See this setup in operation here.

All poultry processing machinery is made in the USA, so we have replacement parts on hand and at the ready, though it’s pretty rare that you would need anything! Our equipment is durable and built to last, even with extremely high use.

Our equipment is ready to ship anywhere throughout the world. 

 

*The video above was produced in 2008 and since then we have improved the scalder design to have better combustion & less/no soot build-up. We discontinued the piezo ignitor due to its inherent unreliability. The float valve was also discontinued.

**When equipped with turkey cones balancing the weight is necessary for stand stability.

***Quantity is dependent on bird size.