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Erfurt (dpa / th) - Shortly before Easter, statisticians counted fewer eggs: on average, around 1.5 million laying hens from larger Thuringian poultry farms laid 492 million eggs last year.
That was around three million eggs or one percent less than in the previous year, the State Office for Statistics announced on Wednesday.
At the same time, the farms also kept fewer animals on average: the population decreased by around 56,000 birds compared to 2019, or by four percent.
According to the information, each chicken laid an average of 322 eggs last year.
In purely mathematical terms, every Thuringian could have eaten four locally produced eggs per week, according to the state office.
The proportion of chickens kept free-range, i.e. with exercise in the open air, remained at the level of 2019 at 22.4 percent in the past year. The proportion of places for hens kept in the barn, which is exclusively in the barn, rose by two percentage points to around 72 percent.
The criteria for organic egg production were met by a total of six percent of the keeping places, compared with seven percent the year before.
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However, it is currently difficult to keep chickens outdoors in some regions of Thuringia: After several outbreaks of avian influenza, poultry keepers have made it compulsory for poultry keepers to stay in a stable.
© dpa-infocom, dpa: 210331-99-39502 / 3
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