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Hatcheries in the United States weekly program set 232 million eggs in incubators during the week ending June 22, 2019.
This is up slightly from the eggs set the corresponding week a year earlier. Average hatchability for chicks hatched during
the week in the United States was 82.8 percent. Broiler growers in the United States placed 190 million chicks for meat
production, up 1 percent from the comparable week a year earlier.
United States ...... 234,839 234,014 234,739 233,242 229,210 231,576 100
Source: USDA National Agricultural Statistics Service, Broiler Hatchery, June 26, 2019.
United States ...... 189,529 188,303 189,061 190,560 189,691 190,276 101
Source: USDA National Agricultural Statistics Service, Broiler Hatchery, June 26, 2019.