Some housewives, fierce hunters and farmers know, that there is such a useful device, as a nozzle for plucking poultry. This device, which can be used equally successfully for pinching and home, and wild birds, greatly facilitates this process.
Nozzles clean bird carcasses quickly and with minimal damage
Tim, who at least once engaged in bird divination, known, how time consuming and tedious this procedure is. It's easy to imagine, how can the procedure of manual plucking exhaust, if you need to release a few bird carcasses from the feathers, which farmers and hunters often face.
As you know, before plucking the carcass of the bird must be scalded with boiling water and only then remove all the feathers and down with your fingers. After the first carcass, plucked in such a simple way, hands get tired, and productivity decreases.
The design of this device is so simple, that you can think about self-manufacturing
For large poultry processing plants, whose workers have to pluck a large number of poultry carcasses every day, the issue of mechanization of such a process was resolved long ago. These plants use specialized perop removers to pluck birds, but it is advisable to buy and use such equipment for household purposes only in that case, if the amount of poultry carcasses processed daily is large enough.
For mechanization of plucking at home today you can buy inexpensive plucker drums. In the meantime, it should be noted, that such devices are of low quality and are almost disposable devices for pinching.
Construction and technical characteristics
A bird-pickling attachment has recently appeared on the market, which can be acquired as owners of small farms, and fierce hunters, who also often have to face the need to perform such an exhausting ??procedures.
The nozzle of this device is called back, which is only a working body, which is driven by a rotating chuck drill or shaft of a small grinder. Functionality, which has such a nozzle on the drill for pinching, allow you to effectively clean the down, feathers and remaining stumps of bird carcasses of almost any size. Importantly, that the age of the bird does not affect the effectiveness of this nozzle.
Nozzles for pinching with different number of stable fingers
Meanwhile, the size and age of the bird, the carcass of which must be cleaned with such a nozzle, affect the speed of the process. So, you can focus on the following data on the plucking of domestic and wild birds, performed with such a nozzle on a drill or grinder:
- little chicken - 10 With;
- pigeons and quail -30 With;
- big chicken (including broilers) — 1-1,5 min;
- duck, Pinched without first getting burns, — 2 min;
- big goose - 2,5 min;
- large turkeys, guinea fowl and musk ducks - 3 min.
Cope with such a pinching unit able to with carcasses and larger birds (such, example, like an ostrich). To clean the feathers and down of the carcass of a large ostrich when using such a nozzle should cost about 7 minutes.
Apparently, the only disadvantage of the nozzle for plucking birds is that, that buying it in regular stores is problematic. However, this device can be ordered online.
What is a nozzle for pinching?
Structurally the pinching nozzle represents precisely to center a drum from metal, on the outer surface of which the beating fingers are fixed. Different models of such nozzles differ depending on the size of the sore fingers, and their number. Depending on the size of the poultry, the nozzles for pinching may have the following dimensions:
- for processing small poultry carcasses - 5 cm;
- for plucking bird carcasses - 9 cm.
The bigger the bird, especially the size of the fingers for the nozzle
The above sizes of sore fingers may vary slightly, depending on the manufacturer of the nozzles. Number of mechanical fingers, which are equipped with nozzles for plucking birds, is from 12 to 24 PC.
In the modern market, nozzles for plucking poultry carcasses are products of Ukrainian and Chinese manufacturers, but there are also models, produced by European and Russian companies. Chinese nozzles, although they are cheaper, do not differ in high quality.
benefits of use
The main advantage of nozzles for plucking birds is that, that they perfectly cope with their main purpose - to quickly and cleanly release the carcass of poultry or wild birds from feathers, down and stumps.
If the nozzle, designed for pinching, has a high quality of execution (namely, this is the quality of European products, Russian and Ukrainian manufacturers), it can be successfully used to get rid of down and feathers of carcasses of birds of almost any size. Nozzles from domestic manufacturers do not differ in quality from the products of well-known European companies. About this, in particular, evidenced by numerous positive consumer reviews.
If you focus on the ratio of "price - quality", then the choice of many will be made in favor of nozzles from domestic manufacturers.
Mechanical fingers, which are equipped with nozzles for pinching, affect the poultry carcass so gently, that do no harm to delicate skin, located under feathers and down. Completely cleaned with this nozzle, the bird carcass has a very attractive appearance.
An important advantage of pinching attachments is that, that you can use them almost anywhere. The main thing here is the ability to connect to the mains, to use the drive device (ordinary drill, screwdriver or grinder).
Worn rubber fingers are easy to replace, and you can, if necessary, choose a different size
There are several other significant benefits of purchasing poultry plucking attachments.
- The drums of such nozzles are made of stainless steel or other materials, not subject to oxidation under the influence of high humidity.
- The average service life of attachments for plucking birds, produced by well-known companies, is 10 years.
- Sore fingers, which are equipped with such nozzles, are made of special rubber structure, which is characterized by high wear resistance. In case of wear of these elements, which occurs due to constant friction against the skin of a bird carcass, they can be easily replaced with new ones.
- Many models of attachments for plucking poultry have spare fingers. Even if they are not, such items are easy to buy in the online store.
- Learning to work with such a device is quite easy, since the packaging, in which the nozzle on a drill for pinching goes on sale, detailed instructions are given, accompanied by drawings or even photographs.
Making a choice between different models of such nozzles, you can read the reviews of those, who already uses this useful device. If you have already become the owner of such a nozzle, it is better not to be limited to studying of rules of its application according to the text instruction, and watch a training video online.