USDA Broiler Hatchery
16 February 2012
USDA Broiler Hatchery: Broiler-Type Eggs Set Down 4 Percent
According to the USDA's National Agricultural Statistics Service (NASS), compared to the same week last year, four per cent fewer broiler-type eggs were set and three per cent fewer chicks were placed.
Commercial hatcheries in the 19 State weekly program set 196 million eggs in incubators during the week ending February 11, 2012. This was down 4 percent from the eggs set the corresponding week a year earlier. Average hatchability for chicks hatched during the week was 85 percent. Average hatchability is calculated by dividing chicks hatched during the week by eggs set three weeks earlier.
Broiler-Type Chicks Placed Down 3 Percent
Broiler growers in the 19 State weekly program placed 162 million chicks for meat production during the week ending February 11, 2012. Placements were down 3 percent from the comparable week a year earlier. Cumulative placements from January 1, 2012 through February 11, 2012 were 970 million, down 4 percent from the same period a year earlier.
Published by USDA National Agricultural Statistics Service (NASS)
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