King and Sons Poultry Service Inc

King and Sons Poultry Service Inc, doing business as King's Poultry Farm, operates under FSIS establishment number P45819 at 8091 Horatio Harris Creek Rd in Bradford, Darke County, Ohio. The federal record lists poultry slaughter and poultry processing, a small size class, and a grant of inspection date of September 22, 2021. Poultry is the only species reported slaughtered under inspection, and no custom-exempt activity is reported to FSIS. The plant describes its work as custom poultry processing performed under USDA inspection, meaning birds are processed for the farms that own them but under federal inspection rather than a custom-exempt grant.

The website states the facility is family owned and operated and is co-owned by brothers Levi King and Reuben King. It traces its origins to William and Marilyn King, who began raising and processing chickens by hand in 1983 and built a small plant that began custom poultry slaughter in June 1994. Levi oversees written food safety plans, financial operations, and marketing, and has served as President and sits on the Board of Directors of the Ohio Association of Meat Processors. Reuben oversees equipment and building maintenance and supervises the processing floor. The site states the plant processes chickens for King's Poultry Farm plus roughly two hundred other farms in the region, and reports a maximum daily slaughter of 5,000 birds.

The plant states it is Certified Organic, that USDA inspection allows customers to sell poultry in all 50 states, and that peracetic acid is used in the chill water as an antimicrobial rather than chlorine. Stated limits are specific: only Cornish and Cornish type meat birds under 10 weeks old, no spent hens or barnyard mixes, no turkeys, quail, ducks, or rabbits, and no flocks smaller than 100 meat chickens. As of the site text dated July 16, 2026, the schedule showed appointments available November 2nd and later, with earlier dates fully booked. Retail hours and direct household sales at the plant are not described; the site directs buyers to King's Poultry Farm.

The plant processes Cornish and Cornish type meat birds only, and beginning in 2026 states it will not accept Ranger type birds or birds older than 10 weeks. It does not process spent hens, barnyard mixes, turkeys, quail, ducks, rabbits, or flocks smaller than 100 meat chickens. Scheduling is by phone at (937) 448-2448 or by email to Jeremy@KingsPoultryFarm.com, and the site recommends booking after checking with a hatchery but before committing to chicks, and updating the plant when flock size changes by more than 20 percent. Minimums stated for 2026 include 250 birds for cut up and separated orders, and 300 or more if a farm wants both cut up and separated plus whole chickens. Whole cut up birds packaged as nine pieces are discontinued for 2026. All 2026 appointments must use a label, with a $50 one time setup fee for a farm name label of three lines of text and a $150 one time setup fee for a black and white logo label. Birds must arrive in transport crates, with Pakster the preferred style, purchase noted at roughly $25 to $35 used and $55 to $75 new, and loaner crates available for pickup the week of the appointment. The plant advises feed withdrawal 14 to 18 hours before slaughter, continued access to water, and clean crates. Fresh whole and cut orders are picked up the day after slaughter between 3 and 5 pm. Frozen whole, cut, and ground orders are picked up Monday, Tuesday, or Wednesday following slaughter, 8am to 4pm. Long term storage runs through Classic Warehousing in Greenville, Ohio, at $50 per pallet for freezing, $65 per pallet for transportation, and $27 per pallet per month for storage.

King and Sons Poultry Service Inc 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 processing plant serves farms rather than walk-in retail customers, and the site directs anyone looking to buy chicken to King's Poultry Farm. Retail counter hours, halves and quarters, bundles, shipping, and online ordering are not described in the sources for the processing facility itself. Households can note that all birds are slaughtered and processed under USDA inspection, that products are vacuum sealed and boxed, and that the plant states it uses peracetic acid rather than chlorine in its chill water.

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.