Inventories

Inventories consisted of the following (in thousands):



	November 26, 2016		May 28, 2016
Flocks	$	101,413	$	94,312
Eggs	12,227		11,519
Feed and supplies	48,651		48,968
	$	162,291	$	154,799

We grow and maintain flocks of layers (mature female chickens), pullets (young female chickens, under 18 weeks of age), and breeders (male and female chickens used to produce fertile eggs to be hatched for egg production flocks). Our total flock at November 26, 2016, consisted of approximately 9.6 million pullets and breeders and 38.1 million layers.