Category Archives: poultry processing

Chilling Requirements for Chickens and Turkeys

Properly chilling your poultry is a critical part in ensuring the quality of your product.  Let me say that again just to emphasize how important this concept is…properly chilling your poultry is a critical part of ensuring the quality of your product.  This point really cannot be emphasized enough; however, I will refrain from repeating it […]

Butchering Chickens at Penn College

We’re excited to have the opportunity to take our mobile poultry processing unit (MPU) to Pennsylvania College of Technology for a demonstration with Chef Stephen Manley’s students. This will give the students a hands-on look at what it means to be process chickens on-farm as a small producer. We have plans to butcher 36 chickens. […]

PASA Poultry Processing Field Day

Eli Reiff will host a poultry processing field on his farm in Mifflinburg on August 31, 2011. And we’re going to be there with our MPU! Participants will be introduced to poultry processing, from facility design to post-processing practices to meeting regulations and requirements. In the morning, while the day is still cool, we will […]

Adventures of a Farm Chickie; Interning at Reiff’s Poultry Dressing

My story…the beginning of this adventure… Oh, what a night! That’s right; the night before I spent the day at Reiff’s Poultry Dressing in Mifflinburg, PA, was spent tossing and turning – I was too excited to sleep! And when Monday, March 21, 2011, finally got here, I was not disappointed with my experience. I […]