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l~~g{3-ll GEORGIA WEEKLY HATCHERY
Released: March 11, 1998
Publication No. USPS 383-930
GEORGIA AGRICULTURAL STATISTICS SERVICE
Stephens Federal Building Suite 320 Athens, Georgia 30601 Phone: (706)546-2236
948-10
BROILERS PLACED IN GEORGIA UP SLIGHLTY BROILER EGGS SET UP 3 PERCENT
Placement ofbroiler chicks in Georgia during the week ending March 7 was 23,994,000--4 percent more than the previous week and slightly more than the comparable week last year, according to the Georgia Agricultural Statistics Service.
An estimated 30, 150,000 broiler type eggs were set by Georgia hatcheries--1 percent more than the previous week and 3 percent more than the comparable week a year earlier.
Placement of broiler chicks in the 15 reporting States totaled 140,072,000--2 percent more than the previous week and 1 percent more than the comparable week last year. Broiler type hatching eggs set were 175,445,000--slightly less than the previous week but 1 percent more than the corresponding week a year earlier. Average hatchability for chicks hatched during the week was 82 percent. Average hatchability is calculated by dividing chicks hatched during the week by eggs set three weeks earlier.
Week Ended
GEORGIA BROILER TYPE EGGS SET AND CHICKS PLACEMENTS
Net Cross State
Eggs Set 11
Movement
Chicks Placed for
of Chicks
Broilers in Georgia
1996
1997 %of
1996
1997
-
-
year
-
-
1996
1997
%of
-
-
year
1997
1998
ago
1997
1998
1997
1998
ago
Thousands
Thousands
Thousands
Nov. 29
29,735 29,936 101
+363
Dec. 6
29,098 29,527 101
+427
Dec. 13
29,213 30,247 104
-152
Dec. 20
29,097 30,037 103
+450
Dec. 27
29,689 30,314 102
+334
Jan. 3
29,541 30,262 102
-22
Jan. 10
28,807 30,254 105
+280
Jan. 17
29,024 29,726
102
+264
Jan. 24
29,172 29,620
102
+400
Jan. 31
29, 126 29, 169 100
+350
Feb. 7
29,623 29,195
99
+73
Feb. 14
29,942 29,823
100
+417
Feb. 21
29,994 29,608
99
+495
Feb. 28
30,097 29,948
100
-103
Mar. 7
29 368 30 150 103
+79
I/ Includes eggs set by hatcheries producing chicks for hatchery supply flocks. Revised
+485 +357 +447
+89 -301 -197
-16 +111 +475 +128 +419* +407* +171 -154* +165
23,394 24,067 23,578 24,430 23,874 23,419 23,602 24,146 24,031 23,830 23,454 23,623 23,915 23,606 23 970
22,577 23,232 23,880 24,046 23,057 23,881 23,807 24,501 24,793 24,081 24,062* 24,039* 23,412 23,098* 23 994
97 97 101 98 97 102 101 101 103 101 103* 102* 98 98 100
Published: Weekly USDA/NASS COOPERATING WITH THE GEORGIA DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE
BROILER TYPE EGGS SET & CHICKS PLACED IN MAJOR COMMERCIAL STATES BY WEEKS - 1997-1998
15 STATES
Ala. Ark. Calif.,Tenn.,W.Va. Del. Fla.
Feb. 14
25,351 29,727 11,170
4,581 2,844
EGGS SET
Week Ended
Feb.
Feb.
21
28
Thousands
25,808
26,014
29,584
29,534
10,442
10,660
4,638
4,643
2,800
2,862
Mar. 7
25,588 29,346 10,940
4,694 2,845
%of year ago 11
100 99 111 102 91
GA.
29,823
29,608
29,948
30,150
103
Md. Miss. N.C. Penn.
s.c.
Tex. Va.
TOTAL15STATES 1998 1997* % of Last Year
15 STATES
Ala. Ark. Calif.,Tenn.,W.Va. Del. Fla.
8,501 17,581
17,831 *
3,727 4,260 12,369 6,610
174,375 173,704
100
Feb. 14
18,399 23,652 9,258
4,464 2,551
8,614
17,799 17,734
3,715
4,379 *
12,523 6,630
8,905 17,783 17,677 3,641
4,301 13,140 6,658
174,274 173,366
101
175,766 173,860
101
CHICKS PLACED
Week Ended
Feb.
Feb.
21
28
Thousands
17,897
17,889
22,944
24,875
9,509
9,164
5,229
5,257
2,614
2,786
8,587 17,727 17,984 3,669 4,224 13,052 6,639
175,445 173,061
101
Mar. 7
18,278 24,045
9,706 4,927 2,805
96 102 103 96 97 108 99
101
%of year ago 11
99 105 98 96 101
GA.
24,039
23,412
23,098
23,994
100
Md. Miss. N.C. Penn. S.C. Tex. Va.
6,394
5,535
5,390
6,571
103
14,331
14,134
14,483
14,594
98
12,605
12,790
13,031
13,678
98
2,574
2,648
2,673
2,784
104
3,519
3,915
4,015
3,958
104
9,618
9,458
9,694.
9,578
106
5,199
4,762
5,255
5,154
105
TOTAL15STATES
1998
136,603 *
134,847
137,610
140,072
101
1997*
136,118
136,402
139,848
138,729
% of Last Year
100
99
98
101
*Revised. I/Current week as percent of same week last year.
ROBERT T. BASS State Statistician
CHRIS MESSER & FRIEDA DEKAZOS Agricultural Statisticians
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