U.S. total broiler slaughter data for the week ending August 15, 2020 is estimated by USDA’s Poultry Market News Service to be 170,368,000 broilers, a 2-percent decrease from the same week a year earlier.
The 2-percent decrease in slaughter compares with no-change in eggs set in the United States, 10 weeks earlier, and no-change in chicks placed 7 weeks earlier in the United States.
| 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 – | % | |
| July | ||||||||||
| 4 | 230,601 |
99 |
191,187 | 102 |
214,705 | 92 | 173,563 | 91 | 147,821 | 97 |
| 11 | 232,173 | 100 |
189,600 |
100 |
223,846 | 96 | 181,083 | 96 | 165,184 | 96 |
| 18 | 228,265 | 98 |
188,147 |
101 |
228,799 | 98 | 184,601 | 97 | 162,082 | 97 |
| 25 | 231,879 | 99 |
185,419 | 98 |
229,381 | 97 | 185,168 | 97 | 163,998 | 97 |
| August | ||||||||||
| 1 | 230,635 | 99 | 186,897 | 99 | 234,848 | 100 | 189,959 | 100 | 165,886 | 96 |
| 8 | 230,625 | 99 | 183,661 | 97 | 235,812 | 100 | 189,745 | 99 | 165,413 | 96 |
| 15 | — |
— |
— |
— |
235,859 | 100 | 190,750 | 100 | 170,368 | 98 |
