|
Accession Number
|
PB2012-114886
|
|
Title
|
Broiler Hatchery (Released on September 19, 2012).
|
|
Publication Date
|
Sep 2012
|
|
Media Count
|
4p
|
|
Personal Author
|
N/A
|
|
Abstract
|
Commercial hatcheries in the 19 State weekly program set 184 million eggs in incubators during the week ending September 15, 2012. This was up 2 percent from the eggs set the corresponding week a year earlier. Average hatchability for chicks hatched during the week was 85 percent. Average hatchability is calculated by dividing chicks hatched during the week by eggs set three weeks earlier. Broiler growers in the 19 State weekly program placed 161 million chicks for meat production during the week ending September 15, 2012. Placements were down slightly from the comparable week a year earlier. Cumulative placements from January 1, 2012 through September 15, 2012 were 6.06 billion, down 3 percent from the same period a year earlier.
|
|
Keywords
|
Agricultural economics
Broilers
Chickens
Eggs
Hatcheries
Hatching
National Agricultural Statistics Service(NASS)
Poultry
Procedures
Production
Statistical data
Tables(Data)
Values
|
|
|
Source Agency
|
National Agricultural Statistics Service
|
|
NTIS Subject Category
|
98B - Agricultural Economics
98H - Food Technology
96C - International Commerce, Marketing, & Economics
|
|
Corporate Author
|
National Agricultural Statistics Service, Washington, DC. Agricultural Statistics Board.
|
|
Document Type
|
Technical report
|
|
Title Note
|
Weekly rept.
|
|
NTIS Issue Number
|
1226
|
|
Contract Number
|
N/A
|
