USDA’s October 2024 Chickens and Eggs report indicated that the number of broiler-type chicks hatched increased by three percent from September 2023.
Additionally, eggs in incubators totaled 720 million on October 1, 2024, up four percent from a year ago. Leading breeders placed 9.73 million broiler-type pullet chicks for future domestic hatchery supply flocks during September 2024, up nine percent from September 2023.
United States egg production totaled 8.92 billion during September 2024, down two percent from last year. Production included 7.65 billion table eggs and 1.27 billion hatching eggs, of which 1.18 billion were broiler-type and 91.3 million were egg-type. The average number of layers during September 2024 totaled 375 million, down three percent from last year. September egg production per 100 layers was 2,381 eggs, up one percent from September 2023.
Total layers in the United States on October 1, 2024, totaled 377 million, down two percent from last year. The 377 million layers consisted of 312 million layers producing table or market-type eggs, 61.5 million layers producing broiler-type hatching eggs, and 3.66 million layers producing egg-type hatching eggs. The rate of lay per day on October 1, 2024, averaged 79.3 eggs per 100 layers, up slightly from October 1, 2023.
The full report can be found here.
