AMICK FARMS, LLC

Amick Farms, LLC operates a poultry slaughter and processing plant at 274 Nealson Street in Hurlock, Dorchester County, Maryland, under FSIS establishment number P7927. The federal record lists the plant's activities as poultry slaughter and poultry processing, with a size class of large and a slaughter volume category of 5.0, the highest of the reported categories. The grant of inspection date on file is September 7, 2021. No custom-exempt activity is reported to FSIS, meaning the plant is not listed as doing custom work for individual owners.

According to the company website, Amick Farms was founded in 1941 in Batesburg, South Carolina by A.D. "Chick" Amick, who began with one chicken house, a wood-fired wash pot and 500 baby chicks. OSI Group acquired the company in August 2006. The website states the Hurlock, Maryland production facility was purchased in 2010 and is one of four integrated poultry production complexes, alongside Batesburg and Ward in South Carolina and Laurel, Mississippi. The company reports more than 3,700 team members, more than 500 family farm partners, and over 1.4 billion pounds of chicken products annually, distributed in more than 40 states to retail, foodservice and industrial markets.

The website describes a vertically integrated model covering feed mills, hatcheries, contract broiler growing and processing, with each plant supported by its own feed mill and hatchery and with onsite USDA inspectors providing inspection oversight. Product lines named include Chick's Choice, Amick Reserve, Chick's Choice Reserve and a No Antibiotics Ever line. Details specific to the Hurlock plant beyond the federal record, such as hours, retail sales or plant-level services, are not on file.

This is a large integrated poultry company plant, not a custom processor. No custom-exempt activity is reported to FSIS for P7927, so a farmer cannot be assumed to be able to haul individual animals here for personal-use processing. The company website instead recruits contract farm partners, listing pullet, breeder and broiler farms and crop farms growing wheat, barley and corn, with facilities described in South Carolina, North Carolina and the Delmarva Peninsula. The website directs prospective poultry growers to chickenfarmer@amickfarms.com and crop growers to cropfarmer@amickfarms.com. Booking terms, fees and cut and wrap options are not stated for this location.

AMICK FARMS, LLC operates under a federal grant of inspection, so product from this plant can be sold anywhere in the United States, which matters if you sell online or across a state line. FSIS does not list a custom-exempt activity for this plant.

The website describes nationwide wholesale distribution in more than 40 states to retail, foodservice and industrial markets, and invites inquiries from parties interested in becoming a distributor of Amick Farms fresh chicken. No retail counter, on-site sales, bundles, home delivery or online ordering for households is described for the Hurlock plant. Household buyers would find Amick Farms chicken through retail stores rather than at the plant, as listed.

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.