A total of 200 random samples were taken from the skin of neck and cloaca of poultry carcasses, slaughtered, scalded, then defeathered mechanically, eviscerated by hand, and lastly washed by tap water.Samples were collected from different poultry slaughtering shops of different sanitation levels at Mansoura city, Dakhlia governorate in order to throw a light on its microbiological quality with application of a trial to improve its sanitary status.Sampling protocols:Samples were collected according to the following scheme:1- Forty samples of neck and around cloacae skin were collected using swab and skin excision techniques(20 of each) after defeathering and pre-evisceration.2- Forty samples of neck and around cloacae skin were collected using swab and skin excision techniques(20 of each) were taken post-evisceration.3- Forty samples of neck and around cloacae skin were collected using swab and skin excision techniques(20 of each) were taken after water rinsing.4- Forty samples of neck and around cloacae skin were taken after spraying of the chicken carcasses with 2% lactic acid for 30 sec. by nearly sterile hard-hold non corrosive plastic sprayer according to Castillo et al.(1999).5- Forty samples of neck and around cloacae skin were taken after spraying of the chicken carcasses with 12% TSP for 30