Processing

Custom Processing

Our poultry is processed with the utmost care to ensure freshness and flavor. Each product is meticulously handled to meet our high standards of quality and safety.

NOTICE: Minimum order is 50 birds for custom Processing from (May 1st thru December 1st).

2025 Processing price list

2024 custom chicken sausage price list

SCHEDULING YOUR BIRDS

Please call for an appointment 330-403-4714. All processing is done by appointment only. Call well in advance as we can be booked from weeks to month in advance. Do not bring birds that have not been scheduled. CALL OR Email

DROP OFF BIRDS

When dropping your birds at the Plant, follow the signs. You can drop off the night before or in the morning of scheduled processing day between 6:00 and 7:00 AM, somebody should be there to help. No birds later than 7AM. Any drop-offs later than 7AM will have a $250 late charge

TRANSPORT & CRATING

Chickens: All chickens must be in poultry pens or crates, birds that are not in crates or loose in a trailer must be transferred into our crates by you the owner, if transferring please pull off to the side so other customers can keep unloading. Please have your cages marked so that know which are yours.
Turkeys: Broad breasted Turkeys can be brought in stock trailers and unloaded in pens, heritage Turkeys need to be in crates.

FEED WITHDRAWL

Make sure you take their food away 12 to 18 hours before slaughter ( Keep the Water supplied) this will empty out the bird and make it a much more sanitary process.

Drop off time is from 6:00 to 7:00 AM on the day of your appointment. You can still drop off the night before your appointment, anytime after 1:00 in the afternoon. Please make sure you have your cages marked so we do not mix them in with someone else’s. Drop off in the morning will be no later than 7AM. Any birds showing up later than 7AM will have a $250 late drop off fee. We must still pay our workers to be here even if there are no birds here to start.

One of our largest struggles is appointment accuracy. We try to help as many people as we can. So, please do not inflate your numbers. Also let us know if you lose birds or your scheduled numbers decrease for any reason, so we may be able to help someone else. You will get a reminder call or email the week prior to your scheduled date. Any birds showing up unscheduled will have a $200 unscheduled fee.

If you want any of your giblets saved, we will need to know by 7AM. Otherwise they will not be saved. We will need a check-in sheet the day they are processed. After 2 days with no check-in sheet your order will be done as whole birds only.

Due to the time involved in processing, chilling, cutting, and packaging we are not doing same day pick-ups. We will call or email when your order is done.

Pick-up will have to be made within 7 days of the invoice date. To function properly we must rotate products. If you leave your product sitting here week after week, that is taking up space where other fresh products need to be, causing other people’s products to spoil. We are not a freezer storage space. If pick up is not made within 7 days, there will be a $250 late pick up fee. We will also be offering delivery, if you would like us to deliver your finished product back to you or to a freezer storage space. Please let us know at drop off if that is something you are interested in.

Prompt payment is appreciated. We accept cash, check or credit card. There is a 3% fee for using a credit card payment due to the additional cost for us to process them.

Your Job is to provide transportation for your birds in a proper well-ventilated container, do not bring them in closed cardboard or plastic containers (they need oxygen to survive). We cannot be responsible for birds brought in as DOA’s.

We have crates here that you guys can use. If they leave our facility there will be a $1 per crate charge. If you guys want to transfer to our crates and they do not leave the premises, there will be no charge. You will have to do that yourself. We do not provide labor to transfer birds into crates.

OUR JOB

Our Job is to harvest these birds in the most humane way possible. We us an electric stun knife for an instant humane dispatch, after which the birds are bled out, cleaned, and eviscerated. The birds are then chilled in an ice water bath to 40F before going into the cooler for further process.

Food Safety is everyone’s responsibility

Salmonella, Campylobacter, and e-coli will be part of the chicken world. Like weeds in good soil, they will be part of the process. By incorporating good management practices and utilizing a multiple hurdle approach , industry has proven that pathogens can be controlled and reduced to a minimum.

#1 Are your birds clean, do they smell like live chicken or raw sewage? Feathers impacted with fecal is #1 against pathogen control, Having your birds come in clean helps us to control pathogens in your meat and all the other people that bring there birds in to process. #2 Feed withdrawal is the next step, if feed is not with drawn the crop is full of undigested contamination, the gut is full of fecal matter and all of this is prone to rupture and leakage during the harvest stage and will contaminate the meat resulting in a pathogen overload that can make people sick.

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Processing Order

Use the repeater field with the plus (+) and minus (-) icons to add up as many items to your order as you need.

First Name

Last Name

Phone

Order Items

Variety

Poultry Process

Turkey Process

Breed

Cutting & Deboning

Cutting

Amount

50 birds minimum

Amount

100 birds minimum

Amount

Birds

Amount

Birds

Amount

100 Duck Minimum

Giblets

Weight

Packaged in 1 to 1.5 lb. vacuum pouch

Weight

Packaged in 2 to 2.5 lb. pkg.
No ammonia burns.
No defects to pass Inspection

Cleaned

Packaging type

Amount

Packages

Flocks of 50 to 100 can be one cut of 50 and the balance as whole or one cut per flock.

No Thigh or Drum deboning on flock of less than 100 birds.

For Whole, Whole Cut up, Splits, Quarters, Backs, etc.

For Boneless Breast, Thigh, Drums, Wings, etc.

Boneless Meat – Breast & Thigh only

Fixed price per bird. Plus, Cutting and Packaging

Due to the importance of age in Ducks at slaughter, please place your order (or call and schedule) well in advance.
Ducks are waxed in food grade wax to help clean them properly.

Comments (Optional)

If you are uncertain about the timing details for your order, you can simply send it, and we will call you back to confirm and finalize all the necessary details.

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Pleasant Valley Poultry & Processing

High Quality Poultry | Baltic, OH

Custom Processing

Our poultry is processed with the utmost care to ensure freshness and flavor. Each product is meticulously handled to meet our high standards of quality and safety.

NOTICE: Minimum order is 50 birds for custom Processing from (May 1st thru December 1st).

How it Works

SCHEDULING YOUR BIRDS

DROP OFF BIRDS

TRANSPORT & CRATING

FEED WITHDRAWL

2025 GUIDELINES FOR CUSTOM PROCESSING

Your Job

OUR JOB

Food Safety is everyone’s responsibility

Processing Order

Order Items

If you are uncertain about the timing details for your order, you can simply send it, and we will call you back to confirm and finalize all the necessary details.

Have a Question? Call Us Now!

We look forward to serving you and answering any questions you may have.

Our Farm

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