USDA’s November 2024 Chickens and Eggs report showed that broiler-type chicks hatched during October 2024 totaled 845 million, up three percent from October 2023. Eggs in incubators totaled 723 million on November 1, 2024, an increase of six percent from the prior year. Additionally, leading breeders placed 8.06 million broiler-type pullet chicks for future domestic hatchery supply flocks during October 2024, which was an increase of one percent from the prior year.
United States egg production totaled 9.19 billion during October 2024, down four percent from last year. Production included 7.89 billion table eggs, and 1.30 billion hatching eggs, of which 1.21 billion were broiler-type and 92.4 million were egg-type. The average number of layers during October 2024 was 377 million, representing a three percent decrease from the prior year. Egg production in that month per 100 layers was 2,438 eggs, down one percent from October 2023.
Total layers in the United States on November 1, 2024, totaled 377 million, down three percent from last year. The 377 million layers comprised 312 million layers producing table or market-type eggs, 61.2 million layers producing broiler-type hatching eggs, and 3.62 million layers producing egg-type hatching eggs. The rate of lay per day on November 1, 2024, averaged 78.8 eggs per 100 layers, a decrease of one percent from November 1, 2023.
The full report can be found here.
