Inventories

9 Months Ended

Feb. 25, 2017

Inventory Disclosure [Abstract]

Inventories

Inventories

Inventories consisted of the following (in thousands):

	February 25, 2017		May 28, 2016
Flocks	$	98,822	$	94,312
Eggs and egg products	16,297		11,519
Feed and supplies	48,699		48,968
	$	163,818	$	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 hatch for egg production flocks). Our total flock at February 25, 2017, consisted of approximately 8.5 million pullets and breeders and 38.1 million layers.