Market Forms of Poultry
Market Forms of Poultry
Market Forms of Poultry
FORMS OF
POULTRY
OBJECTIVES
•Identify the market
forms of poultry.
•Draw and label the
different poultry cuts.
1. LIVE POULTRY
It has clear eyes. The bone at the tip
of the breast is soft
in younger chicken
and thick in older
one.
A young chicken has
fine and soft feet. If Small feathers
it is old, the feet are indicate that the
thick and scaly. chicken is young.
2. WHOLE POULTRY
Their head, feet and viscera are still intact.
It is heavy and the skin is not watery These are slaughtered birds that have
been bled, de- feathered, and the
visceral organs are removed.
4. POULTRY CUTS
Several pieces of a single poultry part
are usually packed in one carton,
wrapped and chilled or frozen.