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Egg sets, chick placements inch up
Story Date: 8/2/2012
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Source: Tom Johnston, MEATINGPLACE, 8/2/12
Commercial hatcheries set 197 million eggs in incubators during the week ended July 28, up 1 percent from the eggs set the corresponding week a year earlier.
Average hatchability for chicks hatched during the week was 85 percent.
Broiler growers placed 161 million chicks for meat production during the week, down 1 percent from the comparable week a year earlier.
Cumulative placements from Jan. 1 were 4.93 billion, down 3 percent from the same period a year earlier.
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