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 […]
Category Archives: poultry processing
Here are a few photos from the Pennsylvania Association for Sustainable Agriculture’s (PASA) field day at Eli Reif’s farm on August 31, 2011.
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. […]
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 […]
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 […]
UPDATE: We do not operate the MPU any longer. If you want to purchase your own equipment, give us a call. The mobile poultry processing unit (MPU) is rolling and butchering chickens in central, north central, and eastern Pennsylvania. Click on the thumbnails for a larger picture.