Poultry meal is one of the most important sources of animal protein used to feed domestic animals. It is made by combining the by-products coming from poultry slaughterhouses or poultry processing plants.

Poultry meal is commonly defined as the ground, rendered, clean parts of the carcass of slaughtered poultry such as necks, heads, feet, undeveloped eggs, gizzards and intestines (provided their content is removed), exclusive of feathers (except in such amounts as might occur unavoidably in good processing practices).