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Broiler eggs set down, chicks placed up
Story Date: 8/24/2012
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Source: Rita Jane Gabbett, MEATINGPLACE, 8/23/12
Commercial hatcheries set 192 million eggs incubators during the week ended Aug. 18, down 1 percent from the eggs set the corresponding week a year earlier, according to USDA’s weekly Broiler Hatchery report.
Broiler growers in the program placed 162 million chicks for meat production during the week ended Aug. 18, up 1 percent from the comparable week a year earlier.
Cumulative placements from Jan. 1 through Aug. 18 were 5.41 billion, down 3 percent from the same period a year earlier.
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