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INVENTORIES (Tables) | 9 Months Ended
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Sep. 29, 2013
INVENTORIES [Abstract] |
Schedule of Inventories |
|  | September 29, 2013 |  | December 30, 2012
|  | (In thousands)
Live chicken and hens |  | $ | 420,644 |  | $ | 405,335
Feed, eggs and other |  |  | 244,250 |  |  | 307,500
Finished chicken products |  |  | 245,939 |  |  | 237,159
Total chicken inventories |  |  | 910,833 |  |  | 949,994
Commercial feed and other |  |  | 253 |  |  | 302
Total inventories |  | $ | 911,086 |  | $ | 950,296

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