Poultry Shrink Bags - 50 Clear 10" x 16" for Whole Chickens or Rabbits w/ 50 zip ties included / 2.5 Mil/Freezer Safe/Commercial Grade/BPA/BPS Free

Ok, first time chicken processor. Had nine birds to take care and didn't dry them off as well as I should have. Bags were easy to use and worked exactly as advertised. We had large Cornish crosses and these bags were perfect. But. Dry your birds. I didn't drain the body cavities perfectly on two. You're supposed to put the hose in the cavity with the end outside the bag to allow the air to escape during dunking/shrinking. If you leave any fluid behind and the end of your tube is in said fluid, it will be rapidly expelled from the hose like a small bloody volcano when the air rushes out of the bag. Lesson learned - my fault, not the product's fault. Dry your birds!

I like the thickness of the bags. They shrink nice and tight for a great professional looking package. I think the zip ties that come with it should be thicker. If you pull too hard they will break, but you have to pull hard after you remove the air vent tube to get the excess plastic to cinch down tight enough to keep air from getting in (detailed explanation below if you can't picture what I'm saying). Overall it works great, but I will be using some thicker zip ties on the rest of the bags. So the way this works, you put the bird in the bag head first. Or where the head used to be goes first. Put the tube in the butt end of the carcass and let it stick out of the back. Gather the excess bag and twist it a few time, kind of like a loaf of bread, keeping the tube sticking out and put a zip tie around the bag and tube. Dip the wrapped bird in hot water. Bag shrinks, excess air escapes out the tube. The moment of truth is when you pull the tube out out of the still twisted bag and quickly tighten the zip tie around the gathered, twisted plastic. If it holds, you have a vacuum sealed bird. If you pull too tight, the zip tie will break and you may not have a sealed bag. If you don't pull tight enough, you don't have a sealed bag. If you gently squeeze the bird and hear air hissing through the plastic, you know you don't have a seal.

I have used these bags multiple times for bagging up my chickens. They work great and keep a good strong hold on the birds. You should be aware that they are great for chickens and rabbits as advertised, but it is a tight fit for pekin ducks. That is not a fault of the bags in any way.

Instructions say to insert straw 1/2 way down into bird but I found that it worked much better if the straw was only 1 to 1 1/2 inches below the zip tie, that way you can see it and see if it has obstructions but the bags worked very well, but I found it very helpful to squeeze as much air out as possible, then put my finger over the end of the straw and hold it until you bag was submerged, hold for a couple seconds then let go, we got much better results that way.!!!

Very nice and professional looking wraps. Much easier and quicker than vacuum bags. I just wish this seller had larger sizes. These were great for my 2 to 4 pound chickens, but I also raise 5 to 8 pounders and turkeys as well.

These bags make processing our chickens so quick and easy. They shrink tightly around the bird, and seal well. I haven’t had any problems with freezer burn.

We raise our own chicken year round and I've been using these bags for a few years now. I always hesitate to rebuy them because they're expensive. But they're the only ones I've found that are made in the USA and if you compare millimeters to microns, these are thicker than the cheaper bags from China. They protect from tears and freezer burn and my birds stay fresh many months in the freezer. For those who say they're too small...this is the small size. It's good for pullets and heritage breeds. For freakishly big Cornish cross meat birds, get the 13 x 18 bags

I am a first time user of these bags to package my meat birds. They were easy to figure out how to use them (just follow directions). They were good quality, time saving, and I will not go back to how we used to package them! They keep the birds from getting frostbit in the freezer!

Love these bags would not go back to the butcher paper we used to wrap our chickens in, a lot less messy when thawing.

Worked perfectly!! Using straw was easier and cleaner than cutting bag.

Good bags

Great bags shrink up easy and look professional when done

Excellent