What is the Latin American poultry market doing, and how far can each figure be trusted?
Public poultry figures for Colombia, Mexico, Peru, Chile and Brazil, read from each official source as soon as it publishes. Every figure states where it comes from, whether it was measured or calculated, and which defects were found in it. When the source fixes them, the flag disappears on its own.
How to read each figure
Every figure carries two marks. The first says what kind of number it is; the second, what was found when reading it. A calculated number never appears as "without caveats", even if nothing was found in it.
- Measured
- Official survey, census or price collection with a published method.
- Administrative record
- Comes from a record kept for another purpose (a levy, an inspection). It counts real events, but only those that pass through that record.
- Calculated
- Calculated by the source (or by this site, and stated) from other data or from assumptions. It is not a measurement.
Sources are re-read automatically every six hours. Each publishes at its own pace — monthly, quarterly, yearly — and says so next to its figure, along with the time of the last read.
Country pages are in the language of each market.
Colombia
- Broiler chicks placed83,792,984 birds · Jul 2026 · +2.1 %With caveatsAdministrative record
- Layer pullets placed3,575,293 birds · Aug 2026 · −22.3 %With caveatsAdministrative record
- Whole chicken, wholesale price11,458 COP/kg · Aug 2026 · −0.4 % ≈ US$ 3.66Measured, no defects foundMeasured
- Brown eggs (AA), wholesale price413 COP/egg · Aug 2026 · −0.2 % ≈ US$ 0.13Measured, no defects foundMeasured
- Poultry feed price index130.4 index · Jul 2026 · −2.3 %Measured, no defects foundMeasured
Mexico
- Poultry meat production4,166,296 t · 2025 · +3.8 %With caveatsMeasured
- Birds slaughtered2,151,949,632 birds · 2025 · +0.9 %Measured, no defects foundMeasured
- Carcass weight per bird1.94 kg/bird · 2025 · +2.9 %With caveatsCalculated
- Average farm-gate price, live bird31.56 MXN/kg · 2025 · +6.0 % ≈ US$ 1.64With caveatsCalculated
- Table egg production3,469,599 t · 2025 · +6.1 %With caveatsMeasured
Peru
- Live poultry production213.9 thousand t · Jul 2026 · +1.4 %With caveatsMeasured
- Egg production42.7 thousand t · Jul 2026 · +0.5 %With caveatsMeasured
- Broiler chicks placed69,015 thousand birds · Apr 2026 · +2.9 %With caveatsAdministrative record
- Poultry meat175,401 t · Jul 2026 · +1.4 %Defects found in the sourceMeasured
- Weight of chickens sold in Lima2.63 kg per bird · Jul 2026 · −5.3 %With caveatsAdministrative record
- Farm-gate poultry price7.32 PEN/kg · Jul 2026 · +2.1 % ≈ US$ 2.15With caveatsMeasured
Chile
- Whole chicken, retail price3,741 CLP/kg · Oct 2, 2026 · −6.2 % ≈ US$ 3.81Measured, no defects foundMeasured
- Chicken breast, retail price4,703 CLP/kg · Oct 2, 2026 · −2.8 % ≈ US$ 4.79Measured, no defects foundMeasured
- Large white eggs, retail price3,838 CLP/12-egg tray · Oct 2, 2026 · −8.4 % ≈ US$ 3.91Measured, no defects foundMeasured
- Broiler chicks hatched24,870,337 birds · Jun 2026 · −3.1 %Measured, no defects foundMeasured
- Broiler breeder rate of lay64.1 eggs per 100 hens a day · Jun 2026 · −3.8 %With caveatsCalculated
- Hatching egg rate96.2 % · Jun 2026 · −0.1 %With caveatsCalculated
- Broiler hatchability73.2 % · Jun 2026 · −8.1 %With caveatsCalculated
- Eggs produced370,728,991 eggs · Aug 2026 · +1.2 %Measured, no defects foundMeasured
- Laying hens14,789,033 birds · Aug 2026 · −3.2 %Measured, no defects foundMeasured
- Rate of lay per hen80.9 eggs per 100 hens a day · Aug 2026 · +4.5 %With caveatsCalculated
Brazil
- Chickens slaughtered under federal inspection511,338,169 birds per month · Aug 2026 · +11.0 %With caveatsAdministrative record
- Chickens slaughtered1,687,465,139 birds per quarter · Q2 2026 · +2.8 %Measured, no defects foundMeasured
- Chicken carcass weight3,738,411 t per quarter · Q2 2026 · +5.1 %Measured, no defects foundMeasured
- Average carcass weight per bird2.22 kg per bird · Q2 2026 · +2.2 %With caveatsCalculated
- Egg production1,252,461 thousand dozen per quarter · Q2 2026 · +0.8 %Measured, no defects foundMeasured
- Hatching eggs218,232 thousand dozen per quarter · Q2 2026 · +1.9 %Measured, no defects foundMeasured
- Eggs per laying hen71.7 eggs per hen per quarter · Q2 2026 · −0.8 %With caveatsCalculated
The five countries, measured the same way
National figures cannot be compared with each other: each country measures its own way. These can, because one organisation estimates them the same way for all five. They are estimates, forecasts and projections, not measurements, and they are not checked against national figures: they measure different things (ready-to-cook weight, all poultry).
| Brazil | 15,450 | +3.0 % |
|---|---|---|
| Mexico | 4,153 | +4.1 % |
| Colombia | 2,074 | +9.4 % |
| Peru | 1,852 | +3.4 % |
| Chile | 755 | +8.5 % |
| Brazil | 10,485 | +3.7 % |
|---|---|---|
| Mexico | 5,175 | +3.4 % |
| Colombia | 2,134 | +9.2 % |
| Peru | 1,950 | +3.1 % |
| Chile | 748 | +4.2 % |
| Brazil | 4,970 | +1.5 % |
|---|---|---|
| Chile | 142 | +10.1 % |
| Mexico | 9 | +28.6 % |
| Colombia | 0 | |
| Peru | 0 |
| Mexico | 1,031 | +1.0 % |
|---|---|---|
| Chile | 135 | −10.6 % |
| Peru | 98 | −3.0 % |
| Colombia | 60 | 0.0 % |
| Brazil | 5 | 0.0 % |
| Brazil | 15,800 | |
|---|---|---|
| Mexico | 4,285 | |
| Colombia | 2,150 | |
| Peru | 1,900 | |
| Chile | 735 |
| Peru | 38.2 | |
|---|---|---|
| Brazil | 33.2 | |
| Chile | 27.0 | |
| Mexico | 24.3 | |
| Colombia | 23.3 |
| Brazil | 17,407 | |
|---|---|---|
| Mexico | 4,660 | |
| Peru | 2,382 | |
| Colombia | 2,225 | |
| Chile | 927 |
FAO also publishes comparable figures for the five countries, but its terms forbid using them on a site that promotes a product without its written permission. That is why they are not here.
The figures in dollars
They are our conversion, to compare across countries: each figure is divided by the average exchange rate of the SAME period as the figure (the August price, with the August average dollar). Using today’s rate, a price that stayed still in local currency would seem to move just because of the exchange rate. Where a period has no rate, no dollar figure is shown.
- COP: Fuente: Superintendencia Financiera de Colombia, Tasa de Cambio Representativa del Mercado (TRM), vía datos.gov.co. Serie publicada bajo CC BY-SA 4.0. Superintendencia Financiera de Colombia · read: Oct 5, 2026, 9:37 PM
- MXN: Fuente: Banco de México, tipo de cambio FIX, www.banxico.org.mx, consultado el 2026-10-06. Promedios mensuales anteriores a los dos últimos años: cálculo propio a partir del FIX diario. Banco de México · read: Oct 5, 2026, 9:37 PM
- PEN: Fuente: Banco Central de Reserva del Perú (BCRPData), tipo de cambio venta del sistema bancario, con datos de la SBS. BCRP · read: Oct 5, 2026, 9:37 PM
- CLP: Fuente: Banco Central de Chile, Base de Datos Estadísticos, dólar observado. Información de propiedad del Banco Central de Chile. Banco Central de Chile · read: Oct 5, 2026, 9:37 PM
What no country publishes
Measured feed conversion, mortality, weight for age and EPEF. No public source in the region publishes them by region or by company; what circulates under those names are assumptions from costing models. Those indicators only exist where every flock is recorded: inside each operation.