Perdue Foods, LLC

Perdue Foods, LLC operates establishment P1318 at 255 N. Rehoboth Blvd. in Milford, Kent County, Delaware. The federal record lists the plant for poultry slaughter and poultry processing, with poultry as the only species slaughtered under inspection. FSIS classifies the establishment as large and places it in slaughter volume category 5.0, the highest reported band in the directory. The grant of inspection date on file is December 20, 2016. FSIS lists the establishment under several doing-business-as names: Coleman Natural Foods, Draper Valley, Harvestland, and Shenandoah Products.

No custom-exempt activity is reported to FSIS for this establishment, so the federal record does not show custom slaughter or custom processing of animals owned by other parties at this location. The listed phone number is (302) 424-2600.

The website on file, perduefarms.com, is the national Perdue Farms site rather than a page for the Milford plant. It describes a fourth-generation, family owned company that has been in business for over 100 years, tracing its start to Arthur Perdue, who established a chicken farm in Salisbury, Maryland, in 1920. The site sells chicken, pork, steaks, and lamb online with shipping by UPS, and states that Perdue chickens are fed a 100% USDA-certified vegetarian diet with no animal by-products and that animals are raised with no antibiotics ever and no added hormones or steroids, noting that federal regulations already prohibit hormones and steroids in pork and poultry. Plant-specific details for the Milford location, including hours, on-site retail, and whether animals are accepted from outside growers, are not yet on file beyond the federal record.

The Perdue Farms website sells frozen chicken, pork, beef, and lamb directly to households, including bulk bundles such as a 15 pound chicken breast bundle and an organic chicken breast bundle, with individual trays and multi-pouch packs also listed. The site states orders ship Tuesdays and Wednesdays via UPS, that orders placed before 9 a.m. ET Sunday, Monday, or Tuesday are targeted for approximate Friday delivery, and that shipping is free on orders over $300. Items are described as frozen and vacuum packed. Many products appeared out of stock in the fetched text, and prices change. No retail counter, halves and quarters, or on-site pickup at the Milford plant is described in the sources.

If you are buying a half or quarter animal, the plant is where the animal is processed; the farm sells you the animal. Read how to buy a half cow for the sequence and the math.