Germany: Bavarian hens will lay around 3.1 million eggs per day in 2023

March 27, 2024 | 09:50:00 | ID: 39102 | Department: Agriculture | animal Fürth (agrar-PR) - Annual production in 2023 with a total of 1.1 billion eggs; 19 percent come from organic farming; On average, a hen in the Free State lays 288 eggs per year. Bavaria's laying hen farms with at least 3,000 hen-keeping places will produce around 1.1 billion eggs in 2023. On average, around 3.1 million eggs are produced every day. The largest share, 55.8 percent, comes from barn farming. Around 19 percent of the eggs in 2023 will come from organically kept laying hens. With a share of around 30.7 percent, Lower Bavaria is at the forefront when it comes to egg production. As the specialist team at the Bavarian State Office for Statistics reports, the egg production of the 377 Bavarian farms with at least 3,000 laying hens will be a total of around 1.1 billion eggs in 2023. That's around 3.1 million eggs per day. This means that every resident of Bavaria could have been provided with around 84 ...