U.S. total broiler slaughter data for the week ending February 27, 2021 is estimated by USDA’s Poultry Market News Service to be 180,520,000 broilers, a 6-percent increase from the same week a year earlier.
The 44-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 – | % | |
| January | ||||||||||
| 16 | 235,729 |
98 | 188,117 |
99 |
224,164 | 98 | 180,476 | 98 | 168,939 | 97 |
| 23 | 234,910 |
99 |
187,759 |
98 |
234,678 | 99 | 187,857 | 99 | 164,264 | 99 |
| 30 | 234,789 |
98 |
185,852 |
98 |
236,363 | 100 | 188,549 | 100 | 166,634 | 97 |
| February | ||||||||||
| 6 | 236,675 |
99 |
186,985 |
98 |
238,258 | 100 | 190,986 | 100 | 167,930 | 98 |
| 13 | 237,123 |
99 |
185,723 |
98 |
227,574 | 97 | 183,069 | 97 | 163,944 | 96 |
| 20 | 231,396 | 97 |
183,333 |
96 |
235,389 | 99 | 188,571 | 99 | *95,927 | 56 |
| 27 | — | — |
— |
— |
238,840 | 100 | 189,222 | 100 | 180,520 | 106 |
*Due to inclement weather.
