Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 40, Number 61, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 April 1908 — Shipping Poultry Undrawn. [ARTICLE]

Shipping Poultry Undrawn.

Practically all dressed poultry should be shipped to market undrawn. It is claimed that it keeps much better. The basis for this claim is that the incision in a drawn fowl readily admits molds and germs of different kinds into the body, where they find ideal conditions for rapid multiplication. The cavity is dark, damp and not easily accessible and frequently a drawn bird which outwardly appears all right is really unfit for food. As it requires considerable time to draw the birds contained in an ordinary shipment and there is a decided loss in weight as well, stock should be shipped undrawn.