Broiler-type chicks hatched during April 2017 totaled 793 million, up 2 percent from April 2016. Eggs in incubators totaled 668 million on May 1, 2017, up 3 percent from a year ago.
Leading breeders placed 7.05 million broiler-type pullet chicks for future domestic hatchery supply flocks during April 2017, down 7 percent from April 2016, according to USDA’s National Agricultural Statistics Service (NASS) “Chicken and Eggs” report, which can be viewed here. Total frozen poultry supplies on April 30, 2017 were up 7 percent from the previous month and up 5 percent from a year ago. Total stocks of chicken were up 4 percent from the previous month but down 1 percent from last year. Total pounds of turkey in freezers were up 11 percent from last month and up 20 percent from April 30, 2016, according to NASS’ “Cold Storage” report, which can be viewed here.
