Animal slaughtering

29,884,342 animals slaughtered in October 2025

Agriculture & fishery
29,884,342 animals slaughtered in October 2025

Animal slaughters : provisional figures for October

66,934 bovine animals were slaughtered in October 2025. The number of slaughtered pigs was 905,621 animals, and the number of slaughtered chickens amounted to 28,825,242 units.

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

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