Table 19. Poultry - Inventory and Sales: 2012 and 2007 
[For meaning of abbreviations and symbols, see introductory text.] 
Item 
Alabama 
Autauga 
Baldwin 
Barbour 
Bibb 
Blount 
INVENTORY 
Any poultry 
farms, 2012 
5,940 
37 
144 
55 
34 
218 
2007 
5,188 
29 
99 
55 
11 
252 
Layers (see text) 
farms, 2012 
3,469 
30 
135 
25 
34 
96 
2007 
2,417 
29 
83 
25 
8 
79 
number, 2012 
9,435,605 
763 
(D) 
324,540 
959 
250,208 
2007 
9,624,254 
501 
(D) 
241,320 
143 
369,328 
2012 farms by inventory: 
1 to 49 
2,587 
27 
117 
15 
28 
77 
50 to 99 
324 
2 
14 
2 
6 
5 
100 to 399 
173 
1 
1 
1 
- 
10 
400 to 3,1 99 
31 
- 
2 
- 
- 
- 
3,200 to 9,999 
25 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
10,000 to 19,999 
175 
- 
- 
5 
- 
1 
20,000 to 49,999 
138 
- 
- 
- 
- 
2 
50,000 to 99,999 
7 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
100,000 or more 
9 
- 
1 
2 
- 
1 
Pullets for laying flock replacement 
farms, 2012 
732 
6 
25 
2 
6 
15 
2007 
571 
12 
8 
7 
1 
17 
number, 2012 
5,457,121 
75 
585 
(D) 
85 
(D) 
2007 
5,435,952 
146 
63 
149 
(D) 
90,531 
Broilers and other meat-type chickens 
farms, 2012 
2,344 
4 
17 
31 
2 
120 
2007 
2,263 
1 
6 
34 
- 
138 
number, 2012 
172,955,409 
185 
799 
3,578,298 
(D) 
9,183,549 
2007 
178,338,741 
(D) 
334 
3,043,320 
10,273,148 
Turkeys (see text) 
farms, 2012 
340 
2 
17 
1 
10 
17 
2007 
279 
- 
11 
- 
2 
6 
number, 2012 
7,354 
(D) 
158 
(D) 
26 
106 
2007 
8,788 
38 
(D) 
29 
Ducks, geese, and other miscellaneous poultry 
(see text) 
farms, 2012 
1,510 
12 
35 
11 
3 
41 
2007 
1,245 
9 
51 
7 
7 
66 
SALES 
Any poultry sold (see text) 
farms, 2012 
4,739 
25 
81 
51 
21 
179 
2007 
4,884 
18 
72 
57 
8 
233 
Layers sold (see text) 
farms, 2012 
986 
9 
17 
8 
5 
29 
2007 
778 
5 
15 
11 
1 
28 
number, 2012 
7,948,547 
151 
260 
317,267 
70 
115,545 
2007 
7,681,447 
(D) 
(D) 
191,576 
(D) 
183,452 
Pullets for laying flock replacement sold 
farms, 2012 
284 
- 
7 
- 
- 
6 
2007 
240 
1 
1 
- 
- 
3 
number, 2012 
10,871,077 
- 
230 
- 
- 
150 
2007 
10,203,084 
(D) 
(D) 
- 
- 
156,000 
Broilers and other meat-type chickens sold 
farms, 2012 
2,356 
1 
_ 
33 
_ 
127 
2007 
2,428 
1 
- 
31 
- 
143 
number, 2012 
1,001,776,907 
(D) 
- 
21,659,105 
- 
52,842,711 
2007 
1,016,230,625 
(D) 
- 
17,609,438 
- 
54,537,372 
2012 farms by number sold: 
1 to 1 ,999 
176 
1 
- 
1 
- 
3 
2,000 to 59,999 
30 
- 
- 
- 
- 
5 
60,000 to 99,999 
58 
- 
- 
- 
- 
1 
100,000 to 199,999 
251 
- 
- 
- 
- 
16 
200,000 to 499,999 
1,129 
- 
- 
14 
- 
74 
500,000 or more 
712 
- 
- 
18 
- 
28 
Turkeys sold (see text) 
farms, 2012 
88 
- 
6 
- 
- 
7 
2007 
76 
- 
- 
- 
- 
2 
number, 2012 
6,623 
- 
134 
- 
- 
38 
2007 
(D) 
- 
- 
- 
- 
(D) 
Ducks, geese, and other miscellaneous poultry 
sold (see text) 
farms, 2012 
823 
3 
6 
6 
3 
12 
2007 
366 
5 
7 
2 
1 
21 
-continued 
2012 Census of Agriculture - County Data 
USDA, National Agricultural Statistics Service 
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