U.S. total broiler slaughter for the week ending December 22 is estimated by USDA-AMS’s Poultry Market News Service to be 156,293,000 broilers, a 14-percent increase from the same week a year earlier.
The 14-percent increase in slaughter compares with no change in eggs set in 19 states, 10 weeks earlier, and a 2-percent increase in chicks placed 7 weeks earlier in 19 states.
| Week ending | Data from 19 states | |||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Eggs set | Chicks placed | Eggs set | Chicks placed | |||||||||
| change from | change from | 10 weeks previous | 7 weeks previous | U.S. broilers slaughtered | ||||||||
| 1 year | 2 years | 1 year | 2 years | 1 year | 1 year | 1 year | ||||||
| – 000 – | % | % | – 000 – | % | % | – 000 – | % | – 000 – | % | – 000 – | % | |
| November | ||||||||||||
| 3 | 180,603 | 97 | 90 | 152,067 | 102 | 92 | 192,248 | 100 | 160,553 | 100 | 148,347 | 96 |
| 10 | 190,391 | 98 | 95 | 147,771 | 97 | 92 | 190,242 | 101 | 159,276 | 101 | 154,621 | 102 |
| 17 | 196,498 | 101 | 96 | 155,895 | 102 | 95 | 185,586 | 100 | 154,686 | 100 | 151,106 | 103 |
| 24 | 196,947 | 101 | 96 | 151,738 | 97 | 92 | 184,443 | 103 | 153,990 | 103 | 123,850 | 110 |
| December | ||||||||||||
| 1 | 198,625 | 102 | 96 | 159,419 | 99 | 97 | 188,027 | 100 | 155,979 | 101 | 153,396 | 104 |
| 8 | 190,297 | 98 | 93 | 163,269 | 100 | 97 | 185,350 | 102 | 154,264 | 102 | 153,222 | 101 |
| 15 | 194,939 | 100 | 95 | 163,174 | 101 | 97 | 187,879 | 101 | 156,731 | 102 | 152,381 | 102 |
| 22 | — | — | — | — | — | — | 181,818 | 100 | 152,067 | 102 | 156,293 | 114* |
Note: Data in bold is subject to weekly revisions. All percentage changes are compared with year earlier.
* In December 2011, Christmas was observed on Sunday, December 25. A number of processing plants did not operate or operated on a reduced work schedule on the Friday prior to Christmas.
