U.S. total broiler slaughter data for the week ending November 23, 2024, is estimated by USDA’s Poultry Market News Service to be 171,196,000 broilers, a 30-percent increase from the same week a year earlier.
The 30-percent increase in slaughter compares with a 2-percent increase in eggs set in the United States, 10 weeks earlier, and a 1-percent increase in chicks placed 7 weeks earlier in the United States. USDA’s latest Broiler Hatchery report can be viewed here.
| 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 – | % | |
| Oct | ||||||||||
| 12* | 240,375 | 106 | 186,670 | 102 | 249,606 | 104 | 193,202 | 102 | 168,623 | 101 |
| 19 | 239,670 | 106 | 190,431 | 106 | 248,586 | 104 | 193,555 | 103 | 169,387 | 100 |
| 26 | 242,411 | 104 | 183,365 | 103 | 248,069 | 104 | 192,869 | 103 | 167,545 | 99 |
| Nov | ||||||||||
| 2 | 241,574 | 106 | 188,622 | 106 | 247,583 | 103 | 192,703 | 102 | 172,639 | 102 |
| 9 | 238,557 | 101 | 186,490 | 105 | 246,842 | 105 | 192,077 | 104 | 172,385 | 102 |
| 16 | 247,440 | 104 | — | — | 243,568 | 104 | 190,027 | 104 | 169,932 | 102 |
| 23** | — | — | — | — | 236,164 | 102 | 183,848 | 101 | 171,196 | 130 |
* Hurricane Milton
**Thanksgiving Holiday (Nov 23, 2023 / Nov 28, 2024)
