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Use Poultry Shrink Bags to keep your whole chickens fresh longer.

  • Curved base
  • For use with whole chickens
  • No possibility of cutting or poking holes
  • Professional look for storage or resale

  • Shrink Bags, 10" x 16" (25 qty)

    Item #950027 | Weight 0.80 lbs
    In Stock
    $22.97
  • Shrink Bags, 13" x 18" (25 qty)

    Item #950028 | Weight 0.80 lbs
    In Stock
    $25.97
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  • Quantity: 25
  • 10" x 16" for whole chickens up to 6 lbs
  • 13" x 18" for whole chickens up to 14 lbs
  • Polyethylene tubing to extract air
  • 65 Micron thickness (thickest bags on the market)
  • Food safe and BPA free
  • Comes with zip ties for sealing the bags
  • Made in the USA


How to Use

After being processed and eviscerated the carcass should be chilled to prevent microbial growth. The USDA requires that the temperature of the carcass be lowered to 40°F. Place your birds in an ice bath. This will allow the bird to age on the bone. Age plays a major role in the tenderness of your birds. We use the bird’s joints as a guide to aging. If you grab the bird’s leg or wing and you can move the joint easily, then it is ready to be shrink bagged. Please allow your birds to age on the bone before you make any cuts to the carcass. This is a recommendation if you would like moist and tender birds. You may want to brine your meat for additional tenderness.

PREPARE THE CHICKEN
  1. Rinse birds well, let dry.
  2. Place the bird in the shrink bag, legs up and towards the opening of the bag.

PREPARE TO REMOVE THE AIR
  1. Dip the polyethylene tubing into your hot water to straighten out the tubing (due to shipping) before you place it inside your birds.
  2. Place the polyethylene tubing about halfway inside the body cavity, twist the top of the bag tightly around the tubing. This will allow the air to escape while the bag is shrinking. No need to poke holes in the bags.
  3. Place the zip tie around tubing and bag, near legs use a pair of pliers to get a grip on the zip tie and pull tight.

PREPARE THE WATER
  1. It is time to prepare the water to be used to shrink your bags. A propane-fueled turkey deep-fryer with clean water to dunk the bagged bird into will do the job just fine.
  2. Bring the water to a boil.

TIME TO SHRINK
  1. CAUTION: Hot Water in use. Consider using protective gloves.
  2. Recommended water temperature to shrink bag is at 180 to 200 degrees. Let it sit for a bit (we use about 195 degrees).
  3. After placing bird in the bag head down, legs up, spin around tubing, zip ties near birds’ legs; dunk into water just enough to cover the feet for 5 seconds or less.
  4. Remove from water wait ~ 5-10 seconds for all of the air to be pulled out of the bag while it shrinks.
  5. Remove the tubing.
  6. Use pliers to pull and tighten the zip tie.
  7. Dry the outside of the bag.
  8. Place back into refrigerator until ready to head to the freezer. You can keep refrigerated for up to 6 days before freezing without any issues. As the bird decomposes, they release gasses and our bags allow those gases to be released.

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Poultry Shrink Bags
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October 9, 2024

Janice R from Wisconsin

These shrink bags are easy to use and give a very professional look.

Poultry Shrink Bags
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April 4, 2024

Donya W from Colorado

I haven’t used these bags yet but they look of good quality and the reason I bought them from Premier 1 is because of the information that was given on size and directions for them. They had a lot of information so it made it easy to choose what exactly I needed plus how to use them properly. I also received them really fast.

About Conductivity

Conductivity measures the amount of electrical current a material can carry. The opposite measure is known as resistance.

Tinned Copper Superconductor

Many of Premier’s electric net fences feature a green and white superconductor that has both stainless steel and tinned copper filaments for optimal conductivity.

These “premium” nets are 10 times more conductive (38 ohms per 1000') than “basic” nets offered by our competitors. This enables the electric pulse to travel much farther and be less affected by weed contact.

Customers who are unhappy with netting are often those who’ve chosen nets from China or their farmstore equivalents.

Types of Line Posts

Line posts are built into the net. Three options are available.*

Line Posts Compared
  1. Single Spike (SS)
    The best choice, unless your soils are always soft or very hard.
  2. Double Spike (DS)
    Posts allow you to push in the spikes with your foot. When soil is hard or rocky, double spikes are more difficult to install and remove.
  3. Drivable Posts (DP)
    Allows use of a mallet or dead blow hammer for installing posts in dry, hard or rocky soil. Features a “spike stop” for extra support and internal fiberglass ribs for added strength.

Tip: To insert a line post into frozen or hard soil, use a power tool to drill pilot holes.

* Not all fences have all line post options.

About Positive/Negative (Pos/Neg) Nets

Is your area dry?

Conventional electrified fence systems rely on soil moisture to be effective. However, not all areas have the required moisture.

Dry soil increases resistance—a weaker, less effective pulse occurs that does not deter animals.

To overcome this, Pos/Neg nets* are wired to allow the use of every other horizontal strand as an extension of the ground terminal. Because half the strands are connected to the ground terminal or ground rod, reliance on soil moisture is reduced. A PowerLink must be purchased separately to make the secondary ground connection.

How it works…

In order to receive a shock, the animal must touch both a positive (hot) and negative (grounded) strand at the same time. This will deliver more pain to the animal than an all hot net (Pos/Pos) because moisture in the soil is not required to complete the circuit.

Pos/Neg fences can be converted to Pos/Pos in moist conditions. Remember, all fences must be kept free of vegetation.

* Not all fences have Pos/Neg options.

Line Post Spacing

“Plus” nets—6'8" spacings between built-in line posts*

Line Post Spacing

Standard nets—10' or 12' spacings between built-in line posts*

* Spacings are approximate.
Distance between built-in line posts may vary by product.

Essential Energizer Advice

  • Buy a larger energizer than necessary. When the fence pleases, most folks will buy more fence—and need additional output.
  • Use a low-impedance intermittent pulse energizer.
  • Use a fence tester to check the voltage often.
  • Use enough ground rod(s)—included with our energizer kits.
  • Don’t allow your lead acid battery to discharge below 40%.
  • Use insulated wire that is designed for electric fences.
  • Always connect the fence to an energizer, not an outlet.
  • Visit this link for answers to other common energizer questions.

Two Basic Types

  1. All-in-one Solar
    • Solar units are very portable.
    • Because they need a battery, these units are more costly to purchase and operate than plug-in units.
    • Batteries are less effective in cold temperatures (deplete faster).
    • Most farmstore solar units are too weak, in joules of output, to properly energize netting. That’s why we designed our own.
  2. Plug-in & Battery
    • Least cost to purchase and operate per joule of output.
    • Best for fences exposed to heavy vegetation.
    • Cold temperatures do not affect performance.
    • Recommended for whole-farm systems, but can be complex to install. Higher output requires more ground rods, underground cables, multiple output terminals, etc.

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Dan Morrical

Dr. Dan Morrical, Ph.D.
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Dan Morrical joined the Iowa State University staff in 1984 as Extension Sheep Specialist after completing his doctorate degree at New Mexico State University. He held the rank of Full Professor as of July 1, 1995 and retired from full-time teaching in 2017.

While at Iowa State University, Dr. Dan Morrical was responsible for educational programs in all areas of sheep production, ranging from nutrition, genetics, marketing and management. Research areas focused on applied projects in the areas of nutrition, forage utilization, genetics, out-of-season breeding and lamb survival.

Dr. Morrical has been heavily involved in providing educational resources to the sheep industry. He has authored over 30 extension fact sheets, ration balancing software programs, grazing videos and co-authored the nutrition chapter of the SID Handbook with Dr. Margaret Benson from Washington State University.

Dr. Morrical now serves as Premier’s on-staff small ruminant nutritionist and sheep production advisor. Most recently, he’s introduced a line of “GOLD FORMULA” mineral premixes under The Shepherd’s Choice® brand, aimed to maximize hoof health and immunity.

Braided vs. Twisted

Braiding instead of twisting the horizontals increases the frequency of metal filaments on the outside of the strand.

Braided vs. Twisted Electric Net Fences

What’s the benefit?

  1. More metal is exposed on the outside of the strand. This enables improved animal to conductor contact. The electric pulse is better able to travel from the fence and into the animal, resulting in a memorable shock.
  2. A tighter, braided weave results in fewer snags when carried or pulled through pastures, reducing frustration.

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