Broiler-Type chicks hatched during July 2017 totaled 826 million, up 2 percent from July 2016. Eggs in incubators totaled 680 million on August 1, 2017, up 5 percent from a year ago.
Leading breeders placed 7.09 million broiler-type pullet chicks for future domestic hatchery supply flocks during July 2017, down 8 percent from July 2016, according to the National Agricultural Statistics Service (NASS) Chicken and Eggs report.
Total frozen poultry supplies on July 31, 2017 were up 1 percent from the previous month and up 2 percent from a year ago. Total stocks of chicken were down 1 percent from the previous month and down 4 percent from last year. Total pounds of turkey in freezers were up 4 percent from last month and up 11 percent from July 31, 2016, according to (NASS) Cold Storage report.
