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The value of all poultry products increased 13.1% from a year earlier to $3.2 billion in 2008. Sales of poultry meat, including turkey, increased 15.0% to $2.4 billion. The value of egg sales increased 7.9% from 2007 to $823.0 million.
Canadian farmers produced 1.2 million metric tonnes of poultry meat in 2008. Chicken, including stewing hens, accounted for 85% of all poultry meat produced, up 1.2% from 2007. Turkey production stood at 180 000 metric tonnes in 2008, up 6.5% from the previous year.
Egg production reached 579.9 million dozen, up 0.4% from 2007. The central region produced over half of the eggs in Canada with Ontario accounting for 227.8 million dozen eggs and Quebec 100.5 million dozen.
Available on CANSIM: tables 003-0017 to 003-0020, 003-0022 to 003-0024, 003-0038, 003-0039 and 003-0079.
Definitions, data sources and methods: survey numbers, including related surveys, 3425 and 5039.
The publication Poultry and Eggs Statistics, Vol. 6, no. 1 (23-015-X, free), is now available online from the Publications module of our website.
For more information, contact Client Services (toll-free 1-800-465-1991). To enquire about the concepts, methods or data quality of this release, contact Sandra Venturino (613-951-9278; sandra.venturino@statcan.gc.ca), Agriculture Division.
