Broiler-type chicks hatched during March 2021 totaled 842 million, down two percent from March 2020. Eggs in incubators totaled 717 million on April 1, 2021, up 4 percent from a year ago, says USDA’s latest Chickens and Eggs report.
Leading breeders placed 8.23 million broiler-type pullet chicks for future domestic hatchery supply flocks during March 2021, down four percent from March 2020.
Total frozen poultry supplies on March 31, 2021 were up slightly from the previous month but down 17-percent from a year ago. Total stocks of chicken were down four percent from the previous month and down 20-percent from last year, according to USDA’s latest Cold Storage report.
