FACTOR
A QUALITY
B QUALITY
C QUALITY
CONFORMATION
Normal
Moderate deformities
Abnormal
Breastbone
Slight curve or dent
Moderately dented,
Seriously curved or
curved, or crooked
crooked
Back
Normal (slight curve)
Moderately crooked
Seriously curved
Legs and Wings
Normal
Moderately misshapen
Misshapen
FLESHING
Well-fleshed, moderately
Moderately fleshed,
Poorly fleshed
long, deep and rounded
considering kind, class,
breast
and part
FAT COVERING
Well-covered (especially
Sufficient fat on breast
Lacking in fat covering
between heavy feather
and legs to prevent
over all parts of carcass
tracts on breast),
distinct appearance of
considering kind, class,
flesh through the skin
and part
PINFEATHERS
Nonprotruding
"Free"
Few scattered
Scattering
pins and hair
Protruding pins
"Free"
Occasional
Occasional
DISJOINTED BONES
1 disjointed bone
2 disjointed and no
No limit
broken bones
BROKEN BONES
None
1 disjointed and
No limit
1 non-protruding broken
bone
MISSING PARTS
Wing tips and tail
Wing tips, 2nd wing joint,
Wing tips, wing, and tail
and tail
(Whole carcass
only)
Back area not wider than
Back area not wider than
base of tail and extending
base of tail, extending to
half way between base of
area between hip joints
tail and hip joints
FREEZING DEFECTS Slight darkening over the Moderate dried areas not
Numerous pockmarks
back and drumsticks.
in excess of 1/2" in
and large dried areas.
(When consumer
Few, small 1/8"
diameter. May lack
packaged)
pockmarks for poultry
brightness. Moderate
weighing 6 lbs or less,
areas showing layer of
and 1/4" pockmarks for
clear, pinkish, or reddish-
poultry weighing more
colored ice.
than 6 lbs. Occasional
small areas showing
layer of clear or pinkish
ice.
Figure 3-1. Summary of specifications for standards of quality for individual carcasses
and parts (continued).
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