<Tr> <Td> Sheep and lambs </Td> <Td> 8,083,457 </Td> <Td> 6,341,799 </Td> <Td> 5,819,162 </Td> <Td> 5,364,844 </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Td> Broilers & other meat chickens </Td> <Td> 1,214,446,356 </Td> <Td> 1,389,279,047 </Td> <Td> 1,602,574,592 </Td> <Td> 1,506,276,846 </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Td> Laying hens </Td> <Td> 314,144,304 </Td> <Td> 334,435,155 </Td> <Td> 349,772,558 </Td> <Td> 350,715,978 </Td> </Tr> <P> Goats, horses, turkeys and bees are also raised, though in lesser quantities . Inventory data is not as readily available as for the major industries . For the three major goat - producing states--Arizona, New Mexico, and Texas--there were 1.2 million goats at the end of 2002 . There were 5.3 million horses in the United States at the end of 1998 . There were 2.5 million colonies of bees at the end of 2002 . </P>

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