Results of Poultry Breeding
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Numbers of poultry as at 31.3.2007 decreased by 1 144 thousand heads (4.4 %) y-o-y., of which numbers of hens went down by 28 thousand (0.4 %). Compared with the beginning of the 1st quarter 2007 the numbers of poultry increased by 4.8 %, thereof numbers of hens by 8.0 %. Egg production reached 404 mil. pieces, i. e. y-o-y increase by 4.7 % in the 1st quarter 2007. The average egg laying per hen was 69.1 eggs (by 2,0 % more). Sale of eggs went up by 2.9 % and reached 302 mil. pieces.
Marketability of eggs was 74.8 %. Sale of poultry for slaughter declined by 8.9 % to 59 thousand tonnes of live weight