Ed & Bill are the 4th owners and builders of what old-time bird hunters will tell you is the best bird Plucker ever made! "The Duck Plucker," as named, designed, and built by Raleigh F. Lane and his architect friend of Nashville, TN. Their first prototype was made out of a large mailbox.  Then in 1976, Lee Perkins, owner of the Orvis Company, saw it at a southern quail farm and purchased the business from Raleigh. In 1990, the Pritchett brothers of Virginia made the Plucker for Orvis until their death in 2003.   Bill & Ed resurrected it in 2011 as “The FowlPlucker” and it remains much the same as R. F. Lane built it in 1969.

Ed & Bill are producing something very important in the waterfowl world with The FowlPlucker. Due to the perfect finger design for duck feather, down, and hair feather removal, The FowlPlucker is 99% efficient on ducks and 99% efficient on feather flow going into your shop vac.

ED & BILL

These two old duck hunters met in 1964 and now have 120 years of combined waterfowl experience, since age 15 when they started out in the public refuge system in California with their dads. Not ones for fashion fads, new guns and speedy shots, they both relish what has lasted and endured over time. Ed has been plucking with his Fowl Plucker for 38 years.

Passing down the old leather duck strap and The FowlPlucker to a grandson is important to these hunters. Eating whole roasted ducks with the skin on is their passion!

We old timers want to see the best duck plucker ever made continue on in the history books!