Broiler-type chicks hatched during April 2022 totaled 822 million, up slightly from April 2021. Eggs in incubators totaled 721 million on May 1, 2022, up slightly from a year ago, according to USDA’s May issue of Chickens and Eggs Report.
Leading breeders placed 8.25 million broiler-type pullet chicks for future domestic hatchery supply flocks during April 2022, up two percent from April 2021.
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Total frozen poultry supplies on April 30, 2022 were up one percent from the previous month and up one percent from a year ago, according to USDA’s latest Cold Storage report. Total stocks of chicken were down one percent from the previous month but up seven percent from last year.
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