Table 19. Poultry - Inventory and Sales: 2012 and 2007 
[For meaning of abbreviations and symbols, see introductory text.] 
Item 
North Carolina 
Alamance 
Alexander 
Alleghany 
Anson 
Ashe 
Avery 
INVENTORY 
Any poultry 
farms, 2012 
7,363 
107 
192 
28 
99 
115 
35 
2007 
6,598 
96 
181 
22 
96 
73 
10 
Layers (see text) 
farms, 2012 
4,996 
93 
95 
24 
31 
107 
31 
2007 
3,736 
78 
82 
19 
12 
70 
10 
number, 2012 
13,091,384 
140,617 
794,045 
668 
272,448 
2,526 
700 
2007 
12,748,275 
386,208 
854,661 
173 
165,111 
2,019 
154 
2012 farms by inventory: 
1 to 49 
4,070 
69 
43 
19 
22 
98 
27 
50 to 99 
350 
10 
3 
4 
1 
5 
3 
100 to 399 
185 
2 
- 
1 
- 
4 
1 
400 to 3,199 
40 
7 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
3,200 to 9,999 
74 
- 
18 
- 
- 
- 
- 
10,000 to 19,999 
101 
2 
17 
- 
3 
- 
- 
20,000 to 49,999 
148 
3 
13 
- 
3 
- 
- 
50,000 to 99,999 
23 
- 
1 
- 
2 
- 
- 
100,000 or more 
5 
- 
- 
- 
- 
Pullets for laying flock replacement 
farms, 2012 
763 
15 
43 
3 
9 
10 
- 
2007 
728 
4 
45 
- 
2 
18 
- 
number, 2012 
6,239,251 
(D) 
1,189,655 
32 
122,364 
137 
- 
2007 
7,129,798 
156,005 
1,055,305 
- 
(D) 
417 
- 
Broilers and other meat-type chickens 
farms, 2012 
2,022 
12 
65 
1 
57 
5 
5 
2007 
1,879 
9 
47 
- 
64 
7 
- 
number, 2012 
148,251,469 
138,617 
5,598,896 
(D) 
5,394,671 
45 
135 
2007 
149,921,809 
562,055 
3,207,018 
5,736,263 
101 
- 
Turkeys (see text) 
farms, 2012 
829 
13 
3 
- 
18 
5 
2 
2007 
846 
5 
1 
- 
16 
2 
- 
number, 2012 
17,191,277 
307 
6 
- 
530,120 
25 
(D) 
2007 
17,865,896 
(D) 
(D) 
- 
437,300 
(D) 
Ducks, geese, and other miscellaneous poultry 
(see text) 
farms, 2012 
1,710 
36 
57 
17 
10 
29 
7 
2007 
1,805 
20 
13 
14 
5 
29 
2 
SALES 
Any poultry sold (see text) 
farms, 2012 
5,400 
63 
186 
20 
94 
63 
15 
2007 
6,003 
84 
181 
14 
94 
57 
12 
Layers sold (see text) 
farms, 2012 
1,109 
20 
60 
10 
11 
20 
3 
2007 
1,060 
31 
77 
- 
5 
14 
8 
number, 2012 
10,310,945 
60,485 
802,309 
243 
261,718 
568 
110 
2007 
11,044,091 
354,392 
837,641 
- 
(D) 
1,541 
202 
Pullets for laying flock replacement sold 
farms, 2012 
268 
8 
42 
1 
4 
1 
- 
2007 
287 
3 
44 
- 
2 
4 
- 
number, 2012 
11,734,548 
(D) 
1,814,286 
(D) 
245,522 
(D) 
- 
2007 
11,343,460 
314,000 
1,757,942 
(D) 
99 
- 
Broilers and other meat-type chickens sold 
farms, 2012 
1,969 
14 
75 
1 
61 
4 
2 
2007 
1,948 
10 
48 
- 
64 
- 
- 
number, 2012 
801,883,037 
649,383 
31,190,123 
(D) 
28,610,156 
270 
(D) 
2007 
781,416,896 
2,585,030 
17,211,009 
28,126,259 
- 
2012 farms by number sold: 
1 to 1,999 
271 
11 
6 
1 
1 
4 
2 
2,000 to 59,999 
53 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
60,000 to 99,999 
37 
- 
1 
- 
2 
- 
- 
100,000 to 199,999 
204 
2 
4 
- 
5 
- 
- 
200,000 to 499,999 
810 
1 
31 
- 
40 
- 
- 
500,000 or more 
594 
- 
33 
13 
- 
- 
Turkeys sold (see text) 
farms, 2012 
590 
7 
- 
- 
16 
- 
- 
2007 
635 
3 
5 
- 
18 
- 
- 
number, 2012 
54,109,724 
245 
- 
- 
1,611,321 
- 
- 
2007 
60,030,181 
(D) 
9 
- 
1,511,225 
- 
- 
Ducks, geese, and other miscellaneous poultry 
sold (see text) 
farms, 2012 
728 
15 
52 
7 
9 
7 
3 
2007 
433 
4 
6 
6 
2 
7 
- 
-continued 
444 North Carolina 
2012 Census of Agriculture - County Data 
USDA, National Agricultural Statistics Service 
