Overview
- The Friedrich-Loeffler-Institut reports more than 500,000 birds have been culled preventively during the current avian influenza wave to limit spread.
- States including Saarland and Hamburg have imposed stall orders that require poultry to be kept indoors to reduce exposure to wild birds.
- Destatis counts 2,200 laying-hen farms with an average of 44.6 million hens that produced 1.2 billion eggs in August 2025.
- Lower Saxony holds the largest shares of birds, with 17.3 million laying hens in August 2025 and a total poultry stock of 77.6 million at the last full count, followed by North Rhine-Westphalia and Bavaria.
- Provisional data show record 2024 consumption at 13.6 kilograms of poultry meat and 249 eggs per person, with self-sufficiency at 100% for poultry meat and 72% for eggs.