David Elliot Poultry Farm Inc.

David Elliot Poultry Farm Inc., doing business as Kee-Tov, operates at 300 Breck Street in Scranton, Lackawanna County, Pennsylvania. The federal record lists establishment numbers M7559, P134 and V7559, with FSIS activities covering poultry slaughter, poultry processing, meat processing and export certification. FSIS classifies the plant as small, with a grant of inspection date on file of July 14, 2021, and a slaughter volume category of 4.0. Poultry is the only species reported slaughtered under inspection, and no custom-exempt activity is reported to FSIS.

The company website describes a kosher poultry operation owned and operated by the Fink family, established in 1942 on the family farm in Mount Cobb, Pennsylvania, and moved to a custom-designed facility in Scranton in 2000. The site states the business is in its third generation and that shochatim work in-house and full time. It lists OU kosher certification and CHK kosher certification, and describes kashrus practices including a custom overhead salt line rather than belt stacking, setting aside questionable birds for a bodek, removal of the full third joint of the wing, and keeping the facility chometz-free year round.

Marketing claims on the website include all natural birds with no hormones, no animal byproducts and no growth-promoting antibiotics, a proprietary feed blend developed with veterinarians, selection of smaller birds, and a process intended to limit water absorption. The site says birds are raised on small family farms in Central and Northeastern Pennsylvania in spacious, climate-controlled houses, and that poultry is processed and shipped the same day, reaching grocery shelves in New York, New Jersey and Pennsylvania by the next morning. These are the company's own statements and are not part of the federal record.

The federal record reports no custom-exempt activity at this establishment, and the website describes birds raised on small family farms in Central and Northeastern Pennsylvania under the company's own program, including a company-developed feed blend and quality assurance plant supervisor audits. The sources do not state whether the plant accepts poultry from outside growers for custom or toll processing, and no booking process, minimums, fees or cut and wrap terms are stated. Growers interested in a supply relationship would need to contact the plant directly at (570) 344-6348.

David Elliot Poultry Farm 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 website does not describe an on-site retail counter. It directs buyers to a store locator listing supermarkets, direct delivery services and distributors, and states that the company delivers fresh poultry from its Pennsylvania facility to grocery shelves in New York, New Jersey and Pennsylvania by the next morning. Commercial purchasing and help finding additional stores is handled through distributors listed in the locator. No prices, bundles or online ordering for consumers are stated 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.