Canadian egg and poultry numbers are on the rise and so are prices.
Statistics Canada reports egg production was up to 63.1 million dozen for the month of October.
That's a 7 per cent increase from the same month in 2015.
Production in Ontario increased a little less than the national average, up 4.7 per cent from a year ago.
The price of eggs per dozen in the province was up .1 cents, while overall Canadian egg prices rose by an average of .6 cents to a little over $1.53 a dozen.
StatsCan notes national placements of hatchery chicks in November were up 1.9 per cent from a year earlier.
It also points out stocks of frozen poultry meat in cold storage to start December were at nearly 82,000 tonnes, nearly 15 per cent more than a year ago.
