The number of cattle slaughters increased by almost a quarter

By: STA Date: 2025. 11. 27. 09:20

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3 million 639 thousand pigs were slaughtered in Hungarian slaughterhouses in the first three quarters of 2025, 3.8 percent more (+132 thousand units) than in January-September 2024. The total live weight of the slaughtered animals was 434.6 thousand tons, and their carcass weight was 349.5 thousand tons, i.e. both live and carcass weight exceeded the value of the same period of the previous year by 5.4 percent.

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177.5 million poultry were slaughtered in the first three quarters of 2025, 1.4 percent less than in the same period of the previous year. The total live weight of the slaughtered poultry was 545 thousand tons, and its carcass weight (cleaned, dismembered weight) was 410 thousand tons in this period. 75.9 thousand cattle were slaughtered in the first three quarters of 2025, 23.4 percent more than in the same period of the previous year. The live weight of the slaughtered animals was 40.2 thousand, and the carcass weight was 21.5 thousand tons. The live and carcass weights exceeded the values of the previous year by 29 and 33 percent, respectively.

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