Marshall Durbin is one of the largest privately-owned poultry companies in the United States. By 1996, the company produced 111 million chickens a year. Based in Birmingham, Ala., Marshall Durbin has facilities in Alabama and Mississippi. It is a vertically-integrated poultry company. Marshall Durbin insures that its chickens are exposed to high-quality feed, trained service crews, efficient egg hatcheries and government-inspected processing. The Marshall Durbin product list includes whole birds with and without giblets; fast food cuts approved by Popeye s and KFC; chicken parts such as fronts, breast, wings, leg quarters and gizzards; and boneless portions. The company distributes chicken product throughout the world.