U.S. total broiler slaughter data for the week ending June 26, 2021 is estimated by USDA’s Poultry Market News Service to be 171,271,000 broilers, a 4-percent increase from the same week a year earlier.
The 4-percent increase in slaughter compares with a 10-percent increase in eggs set in the United States, 10 weeks earlier, and a 14-percent increase 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 – | % | |
May | ||||||||||
8 | 240,544 |
107 |
187,948 | 114 |
241,283 | 101 | 187,496 | 98 | 163,616 | 100 |
15 | 239,247 |
105 |
187,731 |
106 |
240,015 | 99 | 187,285 | 98 | 163,760 | 102 |
22 | 240,099 |
105 |
187,848 |
108 |
238,832 | 100 | 187,077 | 98 | 168,636 | 104 |
29 | 240,260 | 102 | 188,131 | 104 | 238,949 | 100 | 187,869 | 100 | 165,599 | 114* |
June | ||||||||||
5 | 241,109 | 102 | 186,837 | 101 | 239,044 | 102 | 187,286 | 106 | 116,849 | 72 |
12 | 239,883 |
102 |
187,983 |
102 |
239,577 | 104 | 189,017 | 106 | 169,164 | 104 |
19 | 238,197 |
101 |
187,995 |
99 |
237,102 | 107 | 185,905 | 109 | 167,805 | 104 |
26 | — | — |
— |
— |
239,079 | 110 | 187,948 | 114 | 171,271 |
104 |
* This weekend is the Memorial Day Holiday