Custom Slaughtering & Processing Services in Fort Plain, NY

Processing Chicken Meat From Ethically-Sourced Farmers

We are excited to provide quality chicken products for you to enjoy from humane resources, delivered to your doorstep.

Look'in for Someth'in Good to Eat? You Found it!

You're sure to notice the natural, delicious chicken taste in all our superior chicken products. Every bite you take is bursting with flavor and is sourced from NY state grown & certified farms, humanely grown chickens. Every ounce of meat is Air chilled and professionally packaged with care. To learn more about the advantages of Air Chilled Chicken - Taste The Difference! Click HERE.

We are flexible with packaging options and are open to different box size, package size, other than our standard. Call or email for spec sheets on products. Most of our products come vacuum sealed. Sealed with a RA-200 vacuum packaging machine.

Air Chilled Chicken - Taste The Difference!

Morning Star Poultry believes in providing the freshest meat possible at all times. That's why we deliver an all natural, humanely raised, air-chilled and processed right here in upstate New York. But what does air chilled really mean? 

  • What Does Air Chilled Mean?

    Our superior butchering process includes air chilling, a cutting edge method to cool the meat to safe temperatures and preserve freshness. Other companies cool their chicken in chemical-laden water baths, meaning your chicken absorbs both! At Morning Star Poultry we believe your family deserves better than that. Our poultry is butchered right here in New York on the same day it is received through our doors. After carefully and precisely following all USDA regulations during the butchering process, we pass our product through several environmentally controlled cooling chambers where purified cold air circulates the product. The result is a healthier, safer, and flavorful chicken. 

  • How Is The Air Chilled Process Better Than Water Chilled?

    Typical processing facilities choose to cool their meat products by immersing them in a chemical laden bath of ice water. This process results in a product that has absorbed chemicals, added water weight, and less flavor. In addition, any bacterial microbes found on one product is now shared with an entire batch of product creating greater health risks to the consumer. Water pockets can form, impacting the accuracy of product size thus leading a consumer to pay for more than what they're getting in return. Water bathed product is then deep frozen, lessening the freshness delivered to the end consumer.


    We at Morning Star Poultry believe your family, restaurants, catering companies and grocery outlets deserve better than that. 


    Air chilling allows for a healthier and safer product by eliminating the risk of shared bacteria. When a product is air chilled, there is no added water weight so you are always getting exactly what you paid for. No added chemicals or water are used during the air chilling process, therefor a full and robust flavor is found when our product is served.


    Have you ever tried to fry or roast a piece of chicken after it's spent hours submerged, absorbing water and whatever else they use to kill bacteria and artificially inflate the weight? 


    Spoiler alert: The water chilled chicken doesn't result in the crispy chicken of your dreams unless you basically overcook it.


     we realized the benefit of using air to cool birds. Thanks to the time they spend in the chiller, our birds slowly lose water, rather than absorbing excess. Less water means quicker browning — every cook's best friend. There are some additional benefits to air chilling:

    • Since the birds haven't already absorbed a ton of water, they take seasoning and marinade much better
    • Since the surface isn't as wet as water processed, breading adheres more completely, and stays on while sautéing and frying

  • Slaughtering Options

    • Chickens 3 lb to 9 lbs live weight
    • Small Turkeys; call now for November schedule

    Slaughtering Capacity is 400 chickens per/hour, 15000 chickens weekly.

  • Processing Options

    We do anything Chicken! including but not limited to;

    • Whole Chickens
    • Half Chickens
    • 6 pieced chickens. 2 boneless/and/or/skinless breast, 2 leg quarters, 2 whole wings. plus carcass, necks, hearts and livers (optional)
    • 8 pieced chickens. 2 boneless/and/or/skinless breast, 2 thighs (bone-in/skin-on or boneless skinless) 2 drumsticks, 2 whole wings. plus carcasses, necks, hearts, and livers (optional)
    • 10 pieced chickens. 2 boneless/and/or/skinless breast, 2 thighs (bone-in/skin-on or boneless skinless) 2 drumsticks, 2 wingette, 2 drumette. plus carcasses, necks, hearts, and livers (optional)
    • Diced White & dark meat
    • Chicken Strips
    • Ground chicken
    • Chicken Sausage, maple garlic salt pepper Roped or loose.
    • Breaded, heat treated Chicken Patties. Very Tasty!
    • Chicken Broth and schmaltz for cooking
    • Chicken Pies

  • Packaging Options

    • Heat Seal
    • Vacuum seal. with RA-200 Rollstock Machines, 1 lb pks, 2 lb. pks, 5 lb. pks or custom size.
    • Chicken Pies come in clear pie container. A very nice presentation!
    • Cases. 30 lb or 40 lb.
    • Pallet. 40 lb cases 28 per skid, 1120 lbs. 30 lb cases 35 per skid 1050 lbs.

  • Other services

    Other services availble.

    Custom orders welcome, our flock or yours.

    We price according to volume, size, cut, and amount of flocks scheduled. Contact us today to get your Best Price! 


    Live Bird Transportation With Crates and Dollies is Available. Contact Us to Learn More.


    USDA custom rendering of pork lard and beef tallow.


    Doorstep delivery across the USA, using insulated boxes shipped UPS.



Hi, I'm Ben. We offer doorstep delivery with UPS using insulated boxes with icepack, custom orders of whichever cuts you want. Call me 518-777-7827. Featured products; chicken pie's and loose sausage

Now available; Skin & Fat rendering into Chicken Shortening, aka Schmaltz. Similar to Lard or Tallow!

Now available. chicken bone broth with your custom farm logo for retail sales, also maple sausage in 4'' length x 1'' thick. Limited supply of breaded chicken nuggets and patties.

Farmers Market Vendors; Give Us a Call at 518-777-7827 x 1

We can get creative and do the breast, boneless or skinless (as the most valued product) then use drums, and thighs for sausage casing or loose, patties, nuggets and/or ground chicken! Give us a call or email shipping@morningstarpoultry.com to request our custom cut-sheet options. Your flock, your way.

Open The Door to Unlimited Potential with USDA Inspection and Our Endless Product Options!

We Air Chill all processed Birds. your customers will love the richer taste and clean packages.

 What happens with chemical laden water chilling is that the meat absorbs chlorinated water.

A Wonderful Experience Every Time

We've been working with Reuben and the wonderful family of Morning Star Poultry for just about a year. Our meat birds come back nicely wrapped, USDA labeled and ready to go to the farmer markets. We highly recommend their "next day processed" service. It's a wonderful experience. -B. Prucell

Search no longer. Morning Star Poultry has been all we need and more. Believe me, we've been through 5 different processors. Our first year with MSP was a good experience, it took some time to work out the details, communication could have been better, but that has improved tremendously. "There service is over the moon."

We are excited to work through our five flocks with them here in 2025 and also turkeys in November. Simply email Ben shipping@morningstarpoultry for a cut sheet and schedule your flock slaughter dates.

Best Wishes, Mill River Farm, Mass.


chickens in tents outside

Meet Your Processors!

Amos Fisher

Amos is the accountant and sees to it that payables and receivables get taken care of. He is also the one that accomplishes new products and does all the USDA paper work involved in creating new items.

Katie Ruth Zook

 Katie Ruth is the packaging manager. With her detailed ways she will see to it that your order gets packed perfectly and consistently. She is what you could call a " lets get job done manager" and does a terrific job

Ben Stoltzfoos

Ben is manager of further processing and shipping team, enjoys interacting with customers and strongly believes in service is key to satisfied customers.

Reuben S. Fisher

Reuben is the production manager. A strong believer of efficiency, improving the system while focused on same day processing if at all possible. Also manages distributor orders to be filled.

Reuben Jay Fisher

Reuben Jay is great with everyday work at the line. He will do his long-time job of quality control properly while endorsing a lively atmosphere. He is our "Right Hand Guy"

Jr. Fisher

Jr. is a "Know it well" and "Let's get it done" type guy. he accomplishes skills in cutting and handling birds very quick. He is a great guy to have in the production line.

Ruthie Stoltzfus

Ruthie is a fun, easy going gal. a pleasure to work with and very dependable. A much needed gal to manage the pie bakery department

Rebecca, Leah, Sarah and Susan 

Rebecca, Leah, Sarah and Susan are great with packaging and will do their best to make your customers smile with satisfaction.

Need Our Services? 

Call Our Team 518-777-7827