date:Jun 17, 2015
fic discussion of the change in the USDA materials but presume that this would separate young birds that had yet to begin laying from mature birds that were already in production. USDA says that 31.454 million laying chickens and 5.874 million pullet chickens have been lost as of last week. There were 295.9 million layers in inventory on May 1, 2.7 per cent fewer than one year ago. This total includes some impact of HPAI.
Turkey losses remain at 7.76 million. That compares to 2014 slaughter of