26,230,125 animals slaughtered in March 2024
Agriculture & fishery
Animal slaughters : provisional figures for March
67,507 bovine animals were slaughtered in March 2024. The number of slaughtered pigs was 777,664 animals, and the number of slaughtered chickens amounted to 25,306,203 units.
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Animal slaughtering per animal type - last year
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Slaughtering yearly results (2004-2023) (232.5 KB)
Purpose and brief description
Number and slaughtered weight of animals slaughtered in slaughterhouses, approved for consumption.
Population
All slaughterhouses in Belgium
Frequency
Monthly.
Timing of publication
Results available 2 months after the reference period.
Definitions
Number (units): Number of animals slaughtererd in a slaughterhouse and approved for human consumption during that month
Slaughtered weight (kg): Weight of the carcass after slaughter (cold weight), totals per animal species for that month