couple million chickens is a rounding error. Nearly 200 million poultry are processed every week in the US.
That’s what I thought.
i’m a city slicker and even I knew that
There’s about a dozen people on the board who LIVE on bad news.
I feel bad for them because that means they have an abnormal level of fear or they are just not happy.
I’m ####ing miserable but I don’t want my whole family and friends and FRiends here to suffer. :)
Per the National Chicken Council, here is the U.S. Broiler Production over the past few years - 1 chicken is about 10 pounds (including bones).
(Federally inspected plus non-federally inspected/less condemnation)
| Year | Production | Change FromPrevious Year |
|---|---|---|
| Million pounds ready-to-cook basis. | percent | |
| 2009 | 35,131 | -3.8 |
| 2010 | 36,515 | 3.9 |
| 2011 | 36,804 | 0.8 |
| 2012 | 36,643 | -0.4 |
| 2013 | 37,425 | 2.1 |
| 2014 | 38,137 | 1.9 |
| 2015 | 39,620 | 3.9 |
| 2016 | 40,260 | 1.6 |
| 2017 | 41,217 | 2.4 |
| 2018 | 42,145 | 2.3 |
| 2019 | 43,435 | 3.1 |
| 2020 Estimated | 45,582 | 4.9 |
If 1.5MM birds = 15MM pounds (let's be conservative and include the bone weigtage), that'd be 0.03% of expected production in 2020.
Yeah....I think we'll be ok.