Now that's a lot of Eggs! Commercial Egg Statistics in the U.S.:The Weekly Crow

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By Rev. Penny Dean Hibbitts
May 17, 2013

In spite of the obvious rise in backyard, urban chicken keeping,  individuals who have never raised chickens before commercial egg production is on the rise.  The commercial egg and meat industry has actually went up by 2%!  The most recent statistics about Commercial egg and broiler production indicate that production levels went up by 2% in March 2013 according to the USDA report-Chickens and Eggs.

Types and amount of eggs included in the statistics are:

• 6.99 billion table eggs
  
• 1.08 billion hatching eggs
• 1.00 billion broiler-type
• 79 million egg type

Total Laying hens:
"All layers in the United States on April 1, 2013 totaled 348 million, up 2 percent from last year".. (USDA, 2013). 
Of these 348 million there were 292 million layers producing table or market type eggs.
Eggs produced for meat (broiler's)
Broiler type eggs: 53.0 million layer eggs
Eggs produced for baby chicks
There were 3.11 million laying hens producing eggs (produce baby chicks).
Laying Rate per day up 1%

• 75.6 eggs per 100 layers, up 1% from April 1, 2012.
  

These statistics do not include laying hens, broilers, and eggs produced by backyard, urban flocks owned by individuals.
Now folks-that's a lot of eggs!

 Reference: April 22, 2013, by the National Agricultural Statistics Service (NASS), Agricultural Statistics Board, United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) http://usda01.library.cornell.edu/usda/current/ChicEggs/ChicEggs-04-22-2013.pdf

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