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Egg sets, chick placements up
Story Date: 2/7/2013
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Source: Tom Johnston, MEATINGPLACE, 27/13
Commercial hatcheries set 198 million eggs in incubators during the week ended Feb. 2, up 3 percent from the eggs set the corresponding week a year earlier.
Average hatchability for chicks hatched during the week was 84 percent.
Broiler growers placed 162 million chicks for meat production during the week, up 1 percent.
Cumulative placements from Dec. 30, 2012, through Feb. 2, 2013, were 814 million, up 1 percent from the same period a year earlier.
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