We decided to do 50 meat chickens. Our first try at it. I made the culling funnels out of 5 gallon pails, Everything else, we had laying around so to speak. But we didn't have a plucker. So I made one out of an old washing machine. We did a couple chickens with it and found the home made plucker to be lacking. It worked, but not great. So I modified it and ordered the Vevor at the same time. I figured the Vevor could be a backup or I could even sell it if mine worked out well.
The Vevor arrived in just a few days and we went at it again. The modifications I made helped and this time, mine worked better but I wanted to compare it to the Vevor anyway and tried it out.
Wow! While mine would do a pretty good job, the Vevor was obviously the way to go. Fast, efficient and easy to use. Now the one I made can serve as a backup if anything ever happens to the Vevor, but I'll probably just sell it after the next batch of chickens.
Long story short, the Vevor Chicken Plucker is the way to go. I highly recommend it to anyone wanting to process anything more than just a few birds.