Bringing Your Birds to Butcher

When in doubt give us a shout!

We are happy to answer any of your questions.

We are happy to butcher chickens and turkeys for your personal consumption.

Maple Creek Farm Custom Poultry Processing is a 5A Exempt facility operating under Exempt P.L. 90-492. All poultry processed in our facility is for personal consumption only.

When bringing us your birds we do have a few requests that will help make the process easiest for us and produce a high quality result for you.

1. Please ensure that all birds being brought to butcher have been OFF FEED for 12 hrs before arrival to our shop. This helps to reduce partially digested feed and waste materials in the animals system making for a much cleaner and easier evisceration.

2. Birds must be clean. Birds with manure and excessive dirt in their feathers and on their feet add time to our process and risk contamination of product. Birds that are too dirty to process may be rejected upon arrival for butcher.

3. Birds should be properly bedded while raising. This helps to ensure that they do not have broken belly feathers or suffer from “belly burn”.

4. Make sure that your birds have been wormed per medication and withdrawal guidelines. This helps us to keep our facility clean and to not risk contamination for both us and other customers. **All medications have a withdrawal time that MUST be observed before an animal may be butchered for consumption.

5. When transporting birds to our facility please make sure that they are secured. Dog/cat transport crates work great for this. We do have a limited number of transport crates for chickens available to borrow.

Following our requests will help us to better serve you and turn out a product you are proud to have in your freezer.