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Poultry and egg statistics, March 2016 and annual 2015

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Released: 2016-05-27

Egg production in March increased 6.5% from the same month a year earlier to 61.0 million dozen.

Placements of hatchery chicks on farms increased 1.8% to 61.9 million birds in April compared with the same month a year earlier.

Stocks of frozen poultry meat in cold storage on May 1, 2016, were up 31.3% from the same date a year earlier to 86 684 tonnes.

Annual

Egg production totalled 697.8 million dozen in 2015, up 4.8% from 2014. The value of egg sales increased 5.6% to $1.2 billion.

Canadian farmers produced 1.3 million tonnes of poultry meat in 2015. Chicken, including stewing hens, accounted for 86.9% of all poultry meat produced. Turkey production was 171 760 tonnes in 2015, up 2.3% from the previous year. Sales of poultry meat, including turkey, increased 0.7% to $2.8 billion.

  Note to readers

Poultry and egg statistics are available for Canada and the provinces.

Data on egg production are available for March 2016. Data on the placements of hatchery chicks and turkey poults are available for April 2016. Data on stocks of frozen eggs and poultry meats as well as edible dried egg products are available for May 2016.

Annual data on poultry and egg production are available for 2015.

Revisions

Data on egg production, placements of hatchery chicks and turkey poults, and stocks of frozen eggs and poultry meats as well as edible dried egg products have been revised back to January 2013. This is the result of revisions to administrative data and survey data.

Details are available upon request.

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