Broiler-type chicks hatched during August 2017 totaled 833 million, up 3 percent from August 2016. Eggs in incubators totaled 674 million on September 1, 2017, up 4 percent from a year ago.
Leading breeders placed 8.16 million broiler-type pullet chicks for future domestic hatchery supply flocks during August 2017, up 6 percent from August 2016, according to the National Agricultural Statistics Service (NASS) Chicken and Eggs report.
Total frozen poultry supplies on August 31, 2017 were down slightly from the previous month but up 6 percent from a year ago. Total stocks of chicken were down 2 percent from the previous month but up 1 percent from last year. Total pounds of turkey in freezers were up 2 percent from last month and up 14 percent from August 31, 2016, according to the National Agricultural Statistics Service (NASS) Cold Storage report.
