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Eggs Sets, chicks place rose again last week
Story Date: 3/15/2013
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Source: Rita Jane Gabbett, MEATINGPLACE, 3/14/13
Commercial hatcheries in the 19-state weekly program set 199 million eggs in incubators during the week ending March 9, 2013, up slightly from the eggs set the corresponding week a year earlier.
Average hatchability for chicks hatched during the week was 84 percent. Average hatchability is calculated by dividing chicks hatched during the week by eggs set three weeks earlier.
Broiler growers in the program placed 165 million chicks for meat production during the week ending March 9, up 1 percent from the comparable week a year earlier.
Cumulative placements from Dec. 30, 2012 through March 9, 2013 for the 19-state total were 1.63 billion, up 1 percent from the same period a year earlier.
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