U.S. total broiler slaughter data for the week ending December 13, 2025, is estimated by USDA’s Poultry Market News Service to be 171,478,000 broilers, a 3-percent increase from the same week a year earlier.
The 3-percent increase in slaughter compares with a 2-percent increase in eggs set in the United States, 10 weeks earlier, and a 3-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 – | % | |
| Nov | ||||||||||
| 8 | 244,083 | 101 | 185,401 | 100 |
250,036 | 101 | 195,126 | 102 | 174,754 | 101 |
| 15 | 250,922 | 100 | 191,467 | 101 |
247,614 | 102 | 192,505 | 102 | 171,829 | 101 |
| 22 | 252,090 | 101 | 191,212 | 103 |
239,957 | 102 | 185,285 | 102 | 172,861 | 102 |
| 29 * | 251,658 | 100 | 190,382 | 100 |
243,093 | 102 | 188,849 | 102 | 132,428 | 104 |
| Dec | ||||||||||
| 6 | 247,963 | 101 | 195,607 | 100 | 242,748 | 99 | 189,368 | 100 | 173,347 | 103 |
| 13 | 251,382 | 101 | 196,616 | 101 |
240,801 | 102 | 187,405 | 103 | 171,478 | 103 |
| 20 | — | — | — | — |
237,808 | 99 | 185,915 | 99 | — | — |
*Thanksgiving Weekend
