Poultry processing equipment

Apparatus for processing slaugtered poultry which is hanging from a conveyor track by its legs and moved along a path, comprising a plucking device having a plurality of rotatable discs on either side of the path of the poultry, said disks having plucking fingers directed to the path of the poultry, said plucking device having pipe means with a plurality of outflow openings therein and in the proximity of the plucking discs said openings being directed towards said path, and said pipe means being connected to one or more sources of hot water, hot air, steam or another suitable medium or a mixture thereof such that during the plucking operation performed by the plucking fingers the poultry is exposed to the effect of the medium brought thereon via the outflow openings.