U.S. total broiler slaughter data for the week ending September 20, 2025, is estimated by USDA’s Poultry Market News Service to be 175,005,000 broilers, a 2-percent increase from the same week a year earlier.
The 2-percent increase in slaughter compares with a 2-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. 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 | ||||||||||
| 16 | 250,247 | 101 |
193,521 | 100 |
253,106 | 103 | 195,369 | 103 | 170,612 | 102 |
| 23 | 248,767 | 100 | 193,489 | 100 |
251,341 | 102 | 194,784 | 103 | 173,410 | 101 |
| 30* | 250,340 | 101 | 194,181 | 100 |
251,618 | 103 | 194,659 | 103 | 177,600 | 104 |
| Sep | ||||||||||
| 6 | 247,304 | 102 | 194,165 | 101 |
250,862 | 102 | 194,327 | 102 | 161,179 | 119 |
| 13 | 245,060 | 104 | 193,857 | 101 |
247,551 | 100 | 192,243 | 100 | 174,416 | 102 |
| 20 | 247,105 | 103 | 195,294 | 102 |
249,491 | 102 | 193,345 | 101 | 175,005 | 102 |
| 27 | — | — | — | — |
249,490 | 100 | 193,118 | 100 | — | — |
* Labor Day Weekend
