Louisiana Administrative Code
Title 7 - AGRICULTURE AND ANIMALS
Part XXXV - Agro-Consumer Services
Chapter 1 - Weights and Measures
Section XXXV-111 - Poultry; Live; Dressed-Method of Sale

A. The offer to sell and/or the sale of all poultry (except when for immediate consumption on the premises and except when sold by count as provided for in R.S. 3:4615) shall be only on the basis of either live weight or dressed and drawn weight.

B. Live Weight-the net weight of poultry which is alive at time of sale, and as such, shall be classified as live poultry.

C. Dressed and Drawn Weight-the net weight of poultry after being killed, defeathered and eviscerated, and as such, shall be classified as dressed and drawn poultry, with only the edible parts thereof being included in the established weight.

D. Poultry-includes chickens, turkeys, ducks, geese, pigeons, guineas, and any other kind of domesticated bird commercially processed and sold for human consumption.

E. Live poultry shall be weighed within 30 minutes of delivery to a poultry processing facility.

F. All poultry, when placed in a container, or in any covering or wrapper, shall have its net weight plainly and conspicuously marked or labeled on the outside of the container, covering or wrapper.