Broiler-type chicks hatched during July 2021 totaled 844 million, down one-percent from July 2020. Eggs in incubators totaled 718 million on August 1, 2021, up four-percent from a year ago, according to USDA’s Chickens and Eggs report.
Leading breeders placed 8.62 million broiler-type pullet chicks for future domestic hatchery supply flocks during July 2021, up 5-percent from July 2020.
Total frozen poultry supplies on July 31, 2021 were up two-percent from the previous month but down 17-percent from a year ago. Total stocks of chicken were down one-percent from the previous month and down 16-percent from last year, according to USDA latest Cold Storage report.
