OTTAWA - Some people have been crying foul over the lack of ethnic chicken in Canada.

A newly released document shows Agriculture Minister Gerry Ritz got an earful from customers who couldn't find particular poultry.

It says the concerns focused on supplies of some specialty birds.

The Canadian Press obtained the four-page document under the Access to Information Act.

It says complaints flooded Ritz's office after the May 2013 closure of Toronto-based Chai Poultry, one of Canada's two suppliers of kosher chicken.

Complaints also came in the previous year about an Ontario company's supply of Hong Kong chicken -- birds that are processed with their heads, necks and feet still attached.