24,883,782 animals slaughtered in February 2024
Animal slaughters : provisional figures for February
62,439 bovine animals were slaughtered in February 2024. The number of slaughtered pigs was 790,657 animals, and the number of slaughtered chickens amounted to 23,959,041 units.
Animal slaughtering per animal type - last year
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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