Table 19. Poultry - Inventory and Sales: 2012 and 2007 
[For meaning of abbreviations and symbols, see introductory text.] 
Item 
Tennessee 
Anderson 
Bedford 
Benton 
Bledsoe 
Blount 
Bradley 
Campbell 
INVENTORY 
Any poultry 
farms, 2012 
7,257 
80 
198 
38 
65 
122 
141 
33 
2007 
6,527 
75 
212 
35 
53 
109 
175 
23 
Layers (see text) 
farms, 2012 
6,487 
79 
140 
38 
56 
117 
85 
31 
2007 
5,176 
71 
108 
34 
43 
99 
80 
20 
number, 2012 
1,675,399 
1,944 
(D) 
1,215 
340,153 
2,721 
142,856 
811 
2007 
1,713,388 
1,357 
69,340 
754 
146,380 
3,313 
220,204 
465 
2012 farms by inventory: 
1 to 49 
5,830 
68 
134 
31 
41 
106 
64 
26 
50 to 99 
398 
10 
5 
4 
3 
8 
7 
5 
100 to 399 
166 
1 
- 
3 
2 
3 
7 
- 
400 to 3,199 
15 
- 
- 
- 
1 
- 
1 
- 
3,200 to 9,999 
10 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
10,000 to 19,999 
42 
- 
- 
- 
4 
- 
3 
- 
20,000 to 49,999 
24 
- 
1 
- 
3 
- 
3 
- 
50,000 to 99,999 
1 
- 
- 
- 
1 
- 
- 
- 
100,000 or more 
1 
" 
- 
1 
- 
" 
- 
Pullets for laying flock replacement 
farms, 2012 
1,033 
11 
20 
7 
11 
15 
14 
7 
2007 
962 
12 
18 
6 
10 
15 
10 
3 
number, 2012 
1,025,297 
149 
99,582 
54 
162,795 
580 
64,291 
139 
2007 
973,937 
218 
129,433 
106 
146,215 
416 
150,054 
37 
Broilers and other meat-type chickens 
farms, 2012 
1,026 
5 
58 
6 
7 
10 
56 
2 
2007 
959 
1 
97 
4 
3 
13 
85 
- 
number, 2012 
30,400,743 
42 
4,556,414 
228 
85,029 
1,200 
5,986,046 
(D) 
2007 
41,040,292 
(D) 
7,494,442 
30 
(D) 
1,219 
5,964,354 
Turkeys (see text) 
farms, 2012 
491 
4 
8 
5 
4 
9 
8 
3 
2007 
526 
11 
23 
6 
5 
4 
13 
5 
number, 2012 
3,985 
20 
70 
38 
32 
115 
117 
18 
2007 
3,479 
116 
122 
20 
27 
22 
74 
5 
Ducks, geese, and other miscellaneous poultry 
(see text) 
farms, 2012 
1,794 
15 
28 
6 
20 
31 
28 
9 
2007 
2,556 
37 
63 
14 
15 
50 
45 
4 
SALES 
Any poultry sold (see text) 
farms, 2012 
3,889 
42 
117 
21 
39 
68 
117 
19 
2007 
4,369 
53 
171 
26 
45 
76 
140 
17 
Layers sold (see text) 
farms, 2012 
1,021 
12 
17 
11 
18 
17 
29 
4 
2007 
917 
15 
16 
7 
14 
17 
17 
4 
number, 2012 
1,530,044 
758 
(D) 
446 
312,697 
399 
174,627 
144 
2007 
1,609,194 
500 
62,349 
(D) 
172,941 
(D) 
206,232 
120 
Pullets for laying flock replacement sold 
farms, 2012 
138 
1 
10 
5 
5 
1 
7 
- 
2007 
131 
5 
10 
1 
7 
1 
4 
- 
number, 2012 
1,749,134 
(D) 
271,674 
90 
108,005 
(D) 
150,184 
- 
2007 
2,039,732 
120 
266,080 
(D) 
208,545 
(D) 
276,250 
- 
Broilers and other meat-type chickens sold 
farms, 2012 
600 
2 
48 
5 
5 
8 
52 
1 
2007 
670 
1 
93 
- 
3 
7 
82 
- 
number, 2012 
165,803,445 
(D) 
24,518,557 
140 
425,000 
1,625 
32,719,145 
(D) 
2007 
206,132,684 
(D) 
35,143,508 
- 
(D) 
1,015 
30,441,512 
2012 farms by number sold: 
1 to 1,999 
276 
2 
1 
5 
- 
8 
- 
1 
2,000 to 59,999 
5 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
60,000 to 99,999 
9 
- 
1 
- 
5 
- 
- 
- 
100,000 to 199,999 
64 
- 
12 
- 
- 
- 
6 
- 
200,000 to 499,999 
138 
- 
18 
- 
- 
- 
20 
- 
500,000 or more 
108 
- 
16 
- 
- 
26 
- 
Turkeys sold (see text) 
farms, 2012 
109 
1 
4 
3 
- 
- 
5 
- 
2007 
111 
7 
6 
- 
1 
- 
- 
- 
number, 2012 
2,989 
(D) 
55 
27 
- 
- 
67 
- 
2007 
1,871 
80 
27 
- 
(D) 
- 
- 
- 
Ducks, geese, and other miscellaneous poultry 
sold (see text) 
farms, 2012 
538 
6 
6 
4 
13 
6 
17 
- 
2007 
509 
10 
10 
4 
2 
15 
4 
1 
-continued 
426 Tennessee 
2012 Census of Agriculture - County Data 
USDA, National Agricultural Statistics Service 
