ABSTRACT
Poultry meat is very popular food in Egypt as well as throughout the world. No wonder since it is delicious, nutritious and considered as a good and cheap source of protein characterized by good flavor and easily digested. Therefore, the present study was conducted to demonstrate the bacteriological evaluation of some chicken samples (thigh , breast ,gizzard , liver ,neck skin and cloacal skin) in Zagazige City, Sharkia Governorate, through determination of enterobacteriacae count and most propable number of coliform . Results revealed that the mean count ofenterobacteriacae 5.54 ± 0.087, 5.45 ± 0.097, 5.54 ± 0.088, 5.40 ± 0.076, 5.39 ± 0.073 and 5.32 ± 0.064 log10 CFU/g and MPN of coliform was 5.50 ± 0.17, 5.66 ± 0.23, 5.43 ± 0.22, 5.21 ± 0.19 , 5.58 ± 0.18 and 5.34 ± 0.26 log10 CFU/g in the examined thigh, breast, gizzard, liver , neck skin and cloacal skin respectively.