U.S. total broiler slaughter data for the week ending September 6, 2025, is estimated by USDA’s Poultry Market News Service to be 161,179,000 broilers, a 19-percent increase from the same week a year earlier.
The 19-percent increase in slaughter compares with a 2-percent increase in eggs set in the United States, 10 weeks earlier, and a 2-percent increase in chicks placed 7 weeks earlier in the United States. USDA’s latest Broiler Hatchery report can be viewed here.
| 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 – | % | |
| Aug | ||||||||||
| 2 | 248,991 | 100 | 193,345 | 101 | 252,623 | 103 | 194,435 | 102 | 171,719 | 101 |
| 9 | 249,444 | 100 | 193,118 | 100 |
253,052 | 103 | 195,341 | 103 | 171,784 | 101 |
| 16 | 250,127 | 101 |
193,521 | 100 |
253,106 | 103 | 195,369 | 103 | 170,612 | 102 |
| 23 | 249,121 | 101 | 193,619 | 100 |
251,341 | 102 | 194,784 | 103 | 173,410 | 101 |
| 30* | 250,138 | 101 | 194,264 | 100 |
251,618 | 103 | 194,659 | 103 | 177,600 | 104 |
| Sep | ||||||||||
| 6 | 247,979 | 102 | 194,076 | 101 |
250,862 | 102 | 194,327 | 102 | 161,179 | 119 |
| 13 | — | — | — | — |
247,551 | 100 | 192,243 | 100 | — | — |
* Labor Day Weekend
