Joint Announcement of the Agricultural Departments of the United Kingdom

The latest national statistics produced by the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs on the activity of UK hatcheries and poultry slaughterhouses and other related poultry statistics were released on 24 January 2013 according to the arrangements approved by the UK Statistics Authority.

The latest data relates to December 2012.

The key points of this release are:

• UK hatcheries data – chick placings and eggs set
• UK poultry slaughter
• UK poultrymeat production

The latest statistics notice and datasets for UK chick and poultry placings, slaughterings and poultry meat production can be downloaded below.

Coverage: UK

Geographic Breakdown: n/a

Next release date: Release calendar

For more information about this release, please e-mail: sarah.thompson@defra.gsi.gov.uk or telephone:++44 (0)1904 455097

Datasets and additional information produced by Defra

• Egg statistics (updated quarterly)
• Poultry feed (updated monthly)
• UK poultry meat production and supplies (updated quarterly, included with information for red meat production and supplies)
• UK poultry populations (updated annually)

Additional information produced by other organisations

• EU statistics (Source: Eurosat, enter apro_ec in the search box to find poultry information)
• Overseas trade data (Source: UK Tradeinfo)
• Retail prices (Source: Office for National Statistics. CPI and RPI time series)

Downloads

24 January 2013

• UK poultry statistics notice (pdf, 287 KB)
• UK chick and poultry placings – monthly dataset (xls, 161 KB)
• UK poultry slaughterings – monthly dataset (xls, 206 KB)
• UK poultry meat production – monthly dataset (xls, 89 KB)