Making Your Own Poultry Plucker?You Will Not Find A Better General Purpose Plucker Finger Than the Kent C-25

(Updated: 23 June 2026)

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Face & Side View of Kent C-25 Poultry Plucker Fingers

End View Showing Raised Crisscross Tips

My family has been selling these Kent C-25 medium-durometer-hardness rubber plucker fingers to people all over the world since January of 2007. We have sold hundreds of thousands of fingers. The Kent C-25 is the best all-around chicken, turkey, duck, and goose finger on the market.

The C-25 design was developed by Kent Tomlinson in the 1940’s. Kent fingers have a unique elliptical-taper-shape with a distinctive raised crisscross in the tips.  Not only do these fingers pick feathers remarkably well, they have a reputation for durability and longevity. This is due in large part to the high-quality, natural-rubber formulation Kent uses.

I recently read the comments of a man on the internet who said that the fingers on his six-year-old poultry plucker were breaking and he needed to replace them. They were NOT Kent fingers. The Kent C-25 fingers in the tub plucker I built 20 years ago are all original, and not one has broken. They have plucked many thousands of birds, and look like they have a lot of years left in them.

Also, Kent C-25 plucker fingers are USDA approved for use in food processing equipment.
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Kent fingers have been made in the USA by the same small family business for many decades. Kent is the oldest and most renowned plucker finger manufacturer in the world.

I have been contacted by other people who want me to sell their plucker fingers. They tell me that I can buy their fingers for less. But I'm not interested in selling cheaper fingers. I'm satisfied selling a reasonably priced finger with a 50+ year old reputation for durability and efficiency. You will be satisfied with these fingers too.

DESCRIPTION

Kent C-25 plucker fingers are designed to fit through a 3/4" diameter hole. The insertion groove around the base of the finger is 1/16" wide, but the finger will stretch to fit though and grip onto material up to 1/4" thick (click here for directions to make a simple but effective finger puller). Once installed, the finger will project 3-1/8".
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The C-25 fingers I sell are general purpose poultry plucking fingers. They are medium-durometer-hardness rubber. They are suited for plucking chickens, turkeys, geese, and ducks. But they are too hard for plucking thin-skinned game birds like quail.

HOW TO ORDER

You can order C-25 plucker fingers online right now with convenient online order buttons. Or, you can send payment through the mail. Click the appropriate link below for full details.

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UPDATE: As of June 23, 2026 I have stopped selling the Kent fingers. Less expensive synthetic-blend-rubber fingers are what most people are buying these days. The number of fingers I now sell do not warrant me purchasing the large shipments I used to get.  Besides that, I am gradually easing into retirement mode. 🙂

That said, I want to explain one last time that the KENT natural rubber fingers are, without any doubt, the highest quality fingers you can buy. My original Whizbang plucker, now 26 years old, still has the original Kent fingers I made it with. It has plucker thousands of birds, and not one finger has broken! No other finger on the market can take the use and abuse of the KENT fingers and last that long.

The good news is that Kent fingers are still made and sold by Calumet Rubber and you can purchase fingers direct from them. Here's the link: Kent c-25 Plucker Fingers

Feedback

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The above note came to me from a man in the western US who makes and sells chicken pluckers. He was buying a box (500) of Kent C-25 fingers from me on a regular basis. I didn't get an order from him for awhile, then came a check with the above note.

That note means a lot because it comes from someone who has had a chance to compare Kent fingers with other plucker fingers and come to an honest conclusion. His conclusion that "none hold up and do the job" like Kent fingers is the reason that Kent fingers have such an amazing (decades old) reputation and are your best value. Yes, they are a bit more expensive, but "none hold up and do the job" like Kent fingers.

That said, I want to point out that there are now plucker fingers being sold on the internet that have "C-25" (the Kent finger code) molded into them and claim to be made with natural rubber, but they are not Kent fingers. The finger shape is different, and I'm sure the rubber formulation is also different. I'm guessing that those fingers are Asian imports (Kent fingers have always been made in the USA). Buyer beware.

If you want genuine Kent fingers, with genuine Kent durability, they are available directly from Kent (for large commercial orders) and right here on this web site (for smaller orders).