{"id":247890,"date":"2021-05-12T19:01:03","date_gmt":"2021-05-12T16:01:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/tyson-blames-underperforming-roosters-for-us-chicken-shortage\/"},"modified":"2021-05-12T19:01:03","modified_gmt":"2021-05-12T16:01:03","slug":"tyson-blames-underperforming-roosters-for-us-chicken-shortage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/tyson-blames-underperforming-roosters-for-us-chicken-shortage\/","title":{"rendered":"#Tyson blames underperforming roosters for US chicken shortage"},"content":{"rendered":"

“#Tyson blames underperforming roosters for US chicken shortage<\/strong>”<\/p>\n

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Underperforming roosters that aren\u2019t producing as many chicks as expected are partly to blame for the US poultry shortage, according to executives at Tyson Foods.<\/p>\n

The Springdale, Arkansas-based company, one of the world\u2019s largest producers of poultry and other meats, said earlier this week that it\u2019s struggling to ramp up chicken supply because the new roosters it\u2019s been using for fertilizing eggs and breeding new chicks simply aren\u2019t hitting expectations.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019re changing out one [type of] male that, quite frankly, we made a bad decision on,\u201d Donnie King, president of Tyson\u2019s poultry business, said Monday on a conference call with analysts.<\/p>\n

Breeding companies provide hens and roosters to chicken producers like Tyson, which then breed the birds and hatch their eggs to produce poultry. Tyson owns one of the major breeding companies in the US, Cobb-Vantress.<\/p>\n

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Tyson said the new roosters it\u2019s been using for fertilizing eggs and breeding new chicks aren\u2019t meeting expectations.<\/figcaption>
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King explained that the company discovered that eggs fertilized by this specific type of rooster hatch less often, limiting the company\u2019s supply just as nationwide demand for chicken is sky high. He added that the company is working to replace the rooster by the fall, but there could be a lingering supply hit that carries over into next year.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The hatching crisis hit Tyson in January, after it introduced the type of rooster that\u2019s now getting the boot, King said. The breeding problem could be responsible for as much as half of Tyson\u2019s problems meeting demand for its chicken, King said.<\/p>\n

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Tyson points to a surge in demand and employee absence in addition to lower hatching as the causes of their supply issues.<\/figcaption>
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\u201cIt\u2019s about a 50\/50 split between the hatch issue for us and the strong demand,\u201d King told reporters after the earnings call, according to Reuters. \u201cWe\u2019ll get our supply sorted out.\u201d<\/p>\n

There are a variety of other factors also holding back chicken supply, according to Gary Mickelson, a spokesperson for Tyson. He said the winter storm that slammed Texas earlier this year as well as \u201cworker absenteeism\u201d and a surge in demand are also hurting supply.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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The winter storm that slammed Texas earlier this year slowed down transportation of Tyson chicken.<\/figcaption>
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He added that the company switched to the new kind of rooster because it improved the quality of meat. <\/p>\n

But since Tyson experienced the unexpected drop in chicks, it has moved back to the roosters it previously used, he said.<\/p>\n

As the Post previously reported, there\u2019s simply not enough chicken to go around as US demand for the meat surges. A meat-processing slowdown caused by pandemic safety measures along with a surge in demand for recently rolled out fried chicken sandwiches are largely behind the shortage, fast-food executives said last month.<\/p>\n

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A surge in demand for fast food fried chicken sandwiches are largely behind the supply shortage.<\/figcaption>
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\u201cDemand for the new sandwich has been so strong that, coupled with general<\/a> tightening in domestic chicken supply, our main challenge has been keeping up with that demand,\u201d David Gibbs, CEO of Yum Brands, told investors last month. KFC, which is owned by Yum Brands, recently rolled out a new fried chicken sandwich.<\/p>\n

Other companies, including Dallas, Texas-based Wingstop, Charlotte, North Carolina-based Bojangles and Buffalo Wild Wings have all reported that they\u2019ve also struggled to meet demand in recent weeks.<\/p>\n

With Post wires.<\/em>\n <\/div>\n

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“#Tyson blames underperforming roosters for US chicken shortage” Underperforming roosters that aren\u2019t producing as many chicks as expected are partly to blame for the US poultry shortage, according to executives at Tyson Foods. The Springdale, Arkansas-based company, one of the world\u2019s largest producers of poultry and other meats, said earlier this week that it\u2019s struggling…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":247891,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/05\/tyson-roosters-hp.jpg?quality=90&strip=all&w=1200","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[70897],"tags":[105411,72312,70509,70359],"class_list":["post-247890","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-5-12-21","tag-chicken","tag-food","tag-stocks"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/247890","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=247890"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/247890\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/247891"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=247890"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=247890"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=247890"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}