U.S. total broiler slaughter data for the week ending June 25 is estimated by USDA’s Poultry Market News Service to be 165,354,000 broilers, a 1-percent increase from the same week a year earlier.
The 1-percent increase in slaughter compares with a 1-percent increase in eggs set in 19 states, 10 weeks earlier, and a 1-percent increase in chicks placed 7 weeks earlier in 19 states.
Ready-to-cook (r-t-c) weight for the week ending June 18 was 696,356,000, up 4 percent. The year-to-date r-t-c weight was 16,342,793,000,pounds, up 2 percent. The yield from liveweight to r-t-c weight for the week ending June 18 was 74.5 percent.
| Week ending | Data from 19 states | U.S. broilers produced | ||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Eggs set | Chicks placed | Eggs set | Chicks placed | Birds slaughtered | Pounds produced, r-t-c | |||||||
| this week | this week | 10 weeks previous | 7 weeks previous | this week | this week | |||||||
| – 000 – | % | – 000 – | % | – 000 – | % | – 000 – | % | – 000 – | % | – 000 – | % | |
| May | ||||||||||||
| 7 | 208,427 | 100 | 173,150 | 101 | 206,633 | 99 | 170,587 | 100 | 159,052 | 96 | 686,079 | 98 |
| 14 | 206,932 | 98 | 174,630 | 102 | 208,530 | 101 | 173,852 | 102 | 165,491 | 102 | 721,251 | 107 |
| 21 | 207,095 | 98 | 173,590 | 102 | 207,787 | 101 | 172,812 | 102 | 163,547 | 100 | 716,434 | 104 |
| 28 | 206,497 | 98 | 173,554 | 101 | 208,563 | 100 | 172,733 | 101 | 165,616 | 98 | 704,522 | 99 |
| June | ||||||||||||
| 4 | 205,270 | 97 | 172,113 | 99 | 209,382 | 102 | 173,939 | 103 | 146,633 | 99 | 624,862 | 101 |
| 11 | 204,887 | 97 | 171,470 | 98 | 208,037 | 102 | 172,604 | 102 | 160,389 | 99 | 694,236 | 103 |
| 18 | 201,091 | 96 | 169,874 | 97 | 208,503 | 100 | 173,241 | 100 | 160,327 | 99 | 696,356 | 104 |
| 25 | — | — | — | — | 208,972 | 101 | 173,150 | 101 | 165,354 | 101 | — | — |
Note: Data in bold is subject to weekly revisions. All percentage changes are compared with year earlier.
