House of Raeford - Wallace Div

House of Raeford - Wallace Div, doing business as Columbia Farms, operates a poultry slaughter and processing plant at 253 Butterball Road in Teachey, Duplin County, North Carolina. The establishment holds FSIS establishment numbers M737 and P737, with a grant of inspection date on file of December 3, 2018. FSIS lists its activities as poultry slaughter and poultry processing, classifies the plant in the large size category, and records a slaughter volume category of 5.0, the highest volume tier in the directory scale. No custom-exempt activity is reported to FSIS.

The plant is one location within House of Raeford Farms, whose corporate office is in Rose Hill, North Carolina. The company website describes a family-owned and family-operated business tracing its start to 1925, when Mary Sue Johnson began raising turkeys in her backyard, and says five generations of the family are involved across an integrated business spanning hatcheries, feed mills, farms, and plants. The website states the company raises its own birds and produces a full line of chicken products, and lists brands including House of Raeford, Speedy Bird, and Filet Of Chicken.

Company sales channels described on the website include a Foods Division for further processed chicken, foodservice, retail, export, and school nutrition. The website also advertises online pre-order chicken sales with scheduled drive-up pickup. Neither the federal record nor the website describes services specific to the Teachey plant, such as retail hours at that address or work for outside livestock and poultry owners. Some directory listings give the street address as 233 Butterball Road rather than the 253 Butterball Road on file with FSIS. Details beyond the federal record and the corporate website are not yet on file.

The company website advertises online pre-order chicken sales, described as paying in advance and having the order loaded into the buyer's vehicle at pickup, with an up-to-date schedule posted on the company's Preorder Chicken Sales page. The sources do not state that these sales take place at the Teachey plant, and no retail counter, hours, halves or quarters, bundles, delivery, or shipping is described for this establishment. Fresh chicken and further processed chicken sales contacts listed on the website are for commodity and Foods Division sales rather than household orders.

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.