Request
Your request was about the following information:
'From the information you hold, please provide the total percentage of on farm broiler chicken mortalities in 2021 from the information recorded on the Food Chain Information, which is transferred to the official veterinarian in slaughterhouses.
The requested annual total should be based on combining all the cumulative daily mortality rates, which are gathered by the official veterinarians in slaughterhouses under Schedule 2 of the Welfare of Farmed Animals Regulations and Annex 2 of Regulation 853/2004.'
Response
The total percentage of on farm broiler chicken mortalities in 2021 was 3.96%. This information is not currently published and may be an overestimate of the total percentage of on farm mortalities as it is based on the cumulative daily mortality rate rather than the actual number of mortalities in this period, which is not recorded by Food Standards Scotland. This estimate does not include data for mixed loads, as this information is not recorded either.
