U.S. total broiler slaughter data for the week ending October 3 is estimated by USDA’s Poultry Market News Service to be 165,543,000 broilers, a 5-percent increase from the same week a year earlier.
The 5-percent increase in slaughter compares with a 1- percent increase in eggs set in the United States, 10 weeks earlier, and a 1-percent increase in chicks placed 7 weeks earlier in the United States.
| U.S. Eggs Set, Chicks Placed, Broiler Slaughter Report | ||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Week ending | Eggs set | Chicks placed | Eggs set | Chicks placed | Broilers slaughtered | |||||
| change from | change from | 10 weeks previous | 7 weeks previous | |||||||
| 1 year | 1 year | 1 year | 1 year | 1 year | ||||||
| – 000 – | % | – 000 – | % | – 000 – | % | – 000 – | % | – 000 – | % | |
| August | ||||||||||
| 22 | 212,564 | 99 | 176,549 | 101 | 217,563 | 103 | 178,900 | 103 | 162,323 | 101 |
| 29 | 212,492 | 100 | 175,990 | 101 | 218,271 | 102 | 179,096 | 102 | 163,947 | 100 |
| September | ||||||||||
| 5 | 208,593 | 99 | 175,199 | 100 | 217,563 | 102 | 178,435 | 103 | 167,766 | 116* |
| 12 | 207,284 | 99 | 174,640 | 100 | 214,770 | 101 | 176,875 | 102 | 144,467 | 91* |
| 19 | 200,882 | 98 | 174,882 | 101 | 215,880 | 100 | 177,668 | 101 | 163,317 | 104 |
| 26 | 209,139 | 100 | 171,309 | 100 | 215,560 | 100 | 176,808 | 101 | 162,770 | 103 |
| October | ||||||||||
| 3 | — | — | — | — | 215,475 | 101 | 176,373 | 101 | 165,543 | 105 |
Note: Data in bold is subject to weekly revisions. All percentage changes are compared with earlier.
*Labor Day Holiday in 2014 was a week earlier than in 2015
