The following production data was summarized from the September 22^nd 2025 edition of the USDA Chickens and Eggs-:

• August 2025 pullet hatch, 28.7 million, up 5 percent from August 2024.
• January to August 2025 cumulative pullet hatch, 236.7 million, up 8 percent from the corresponding months of 2025
• September 1^st 2025 egg-type hatching eggs in incubators, 55.0 million, up 12 percent from September1^st 2024
• September 2025 pullets placed, 27.6 million, up 12 percent from September 2024.
• September 2025 pullets undergoing rearing, 140.3 million, up 8 percent from September 2024.
• September 1^st 2025 hen population 301.4 million, down 1 percent from September 1^st 2024.
• August 2025 table eggs produced, 7,586 billion, down 2.2 percent from June 2024.
• September 2025 hens in molt, 2.1% of flock, up 17 percent from September 2024.
• September 1^st 2025 hens completed molt, 9.8% of flock, down 4 percent from September 1^st 2024.
• August 2025 disposal by slaughter, 11.5 million, down 21 percent from August 2024
• August 2025 disposal by rendering, composting or death, 8.9 million, down 13 percent from August 2024.

The take-away from data in the September release is the steady replacement of the national flock that was reduced by depopulation of 39 million hens during the first five months of 2025. It is probable that the quantum of replacements will be consistent with anticipated demand, hopefully avoiding oversupply and depressed prices as recorded in 2016 and early 2023. If mortality due to HPAI continues over the 5 million hens lost in September and October, coincident with the fall migration of waterfowl or if extension of infection from dairy herds occurs, the size of the national flock will be adversely impacted with implications for retail price.