Source: Michael Fielding, MEATINGPLACE, 10/25/16


United States egg production totaled 8.30 billion during September 2016, up 10 percent from last year. Production included 7.21 billion table eggs and 1.09 billion hatching eggs, of which 1.01 billion were broiler-type and 85.7 million were egg-type.

The total number of layers during September 2016 averaged 361 million, up 7 percent from last year. September egg production per 100 layers was 2,302 eggs, up 2 percent from September 2015. All layers in the United States on Oct. 1, 2016 totaled 361 million, up 7 percent from last year.

The 361 million layers consisted of 304 million layers producing table or market type eggs, 53.5 million layers producing broiler-type hatching eggs, and 3.48 million layers producing egg-type hatching eggs. Rate of lay per day on Oct. 1, 2016, averaged 76.8 eggs per 100 layers, up 3 percent from Oct. 1, 2015.

Broiler-type chicks hatched during September 2016 totaled 771 million, up 1 percent from September 2015. Eggs in incubators totaled 628 million on Oct. 1, 2016, up 3 percent from a year ago. Leading breeders placed 7.04 million broiler-type pullet chicks for future domestic hatchery supply flocks during September 2016, down 18 percent from September 2015.

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