Gold Kist farms produce variety of chicken products Gold Kist is a wholly owned subsidiary of Pilgrim's Pride. The company operates a fully-integrated broiler production, processing and marketing business. The broiler production operations include nine broiler complexes located in Alabama, Florida, Georgia, North Carolina and South Carolina. Each complex operates in a different geographic region and includes pullet (young hens less than 26 weeks old grown as replacement hens for breeding) and breeder (hatching egg) flocks, broiler flocks, one or more hatcheries, one or more feed mills and one or more poultry processing plants. Three complexes also have rendering plants to process by-products.