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Egg sets, chick placements still on decline
Story Date: 5/4/2012
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Source: Michael Fielding, MEATINGPLACE, 5/3/12
Commercial hatcheries in the 19-state weekly program set 197 million eggs in incubators during the week ending April 28 -- down 5 percent from the eggs set the corresponding week a year earlier.
Average hatchability for chicks hatched during the week was 85 percent.
Broiler growers in the 19-state weekly program placed 167 million chicks for meat production during the week ending April 28. Placements were down 3 percent from the comparable week a year earlier.
Cumulative placements from January 1 through April 28 were 2.77 billion, down 4 percent from the same period a year earlier.
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