USDA this week released its March monthly Cold Storage report showing total frozen poultry supplies were up three percent from the previous month and up 10 percent from a year ago.
Total frozen poultry supplies on February 28, 2023, were up three percent from the previous month and up 10 percent from a year ago. Total stocks of chicken were down slightly from the previous month but up 10 percent from last year.
The full Cold Storage report can be found here and further information can be found in the chart below:
| Commodity: Frozen Chicken | Stocks in All Warehouses | Dec. 31, 2022 as a % of | |||
| Feb. 28, 2022 | Jan. 31, 2023 | Feb. 28, 2023 | Feb. 28, 2022 | Jan. 31, 2023 | |
| (1,000 pounds) | (percent) | ||||
| Broilers, fryers, and roasters | 11,931 | 13,552 | 13,075 | 110 | 96 |
| Hens, mature chickens | 4,258 | 5,875 | 5,980 | 140 | 102 |
| Breasts and breasts meat | 174,170 | 242,011 | 245,081 | 141 | 101 |
| Drumsticks | 36,484 | 29,061 | 27,746 | 76 | 95 |
| Leg quarters | 95,653 | 71,757 | 65,441 | 68 | 91 |
| Legs | 16,750 | 19,236 | 20,123 | 120 | 105 |
| Thigh and thigh quarters | 17,391 | 10,456 | 9,056 | 52 | 87 |
| Thigh meat | 14,470 | 18,231 | 17,457 | 121 | 96 |
| Wings | 67,616 | 65,779 | 61,004 | 90 | 93 |
| Paws and feet | 33,544 | 34,395 | 32,002 | 95 | 93 |
| Other | 313,390 | 356,800 | 366,372 | 117 | 103 |
| Total Chicken | 785,657 | 867,153 | 863,337 | 110 | 100 |
