Broiler eggs set, chicks hatched up 1 percent

Broiler eggs set and broiler chicks placed both increased by one percent during the week of January 19, compared to that time a year ago, according to the USDA's latest broiler hatchery report.

Broiler eggs set and broiler chicks placed both increased by one percent during the week of January 19, compared to that time a year ago, according to the USDA's latest broiler hatchery report.

Commercial hatcheries in the 19-state weekly program set 196 million eggs in incubators over that week, which is up one percent from the eggs set the corresponding week a year ago. Average hatchability was up 85 percent.

Broiler growers in that same 19-state program placed 162 million chicks for meat production during the week, up 1 percent from a year ago. Cumulative placements from December 30, 2012, through January 19 were 490 million, up 1 percent from a year earlier.

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