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Egg sets, chick placements relatively flat
Story Date: 5/16/2013
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Source: MEATINGPLACE, 5/16/13
Commercial hatcheries set 202 million eggs in incubators during the week ended May 11, up 1 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 165 million chicks for meat production during the week, down 1 percent from a year earlier.
Cumulative placements from Dec. 30, 2012, through May 11, 2013, were 3.11 billion, up slightly from the same period a year earlier.
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