extend from specialty items such as "Rock-Cornish game hens" and non- 

 fhicken classes such as ducks, geese, guineas, turkeys, pigeons and game 

 liirds,-^ as well as roaslitig chickens, fowl, and roostcMs. The prospects for 

 ohtaining fowl are dependent lo a considerable extent on location, and upoji 

 the number of smaller egg producers who remain in business and who 

 do not process their own birds. 



Some market may still remain for small plants solely because of con- 

 sumer preferences. These may be religious or ethnic in association, or the 

 residual demand for "native, fresh-killed" birds in which physical nearness 

 Id jMocessing is a determinant. 



-^ Pigeons and game birds are not subject to the Poidtry Prndurts Inspection Art, 

 but they may be processed in official plants operating under inspection. Inspection of 

 pigeons and game birds can be appHed to processors who voluntarily request this 

 service under provisions of the Agricultural Marketing Act of 1946. 



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