Below are the weekly slaughter figures for sheep and lambs in Australia, based on figures reported in Meat and Livestock Australia’s, Meat and Livestock Weekly dated Friday 19 October 2012
| State | This week | Last week | Last Year | |
| Qld | Lamb | 4,711 | 3,792 | 3,896 |
| Sheep | 7,452 | 6,209 | 8,516 | |
| Vic | Lamb | 176,998 | 176,605 | 140,715 |
| Sheep | 39,409 | 34,781 | 36,548 | |
| NSW | Lamb | 80,363 | 81,291 | 83,719 |
| Sheep | 45,465 | 30,659 | 22,217 | |
| SA | Lamb | 72,683 | 71,124 | 70,747 |
| Sheep | 24,266 | 23,583 | 20,258 | |
| Tas | Lamb | 10,109 | 11,539 | 8,967 |
| Sheep | 1,951 | 1,330 | 899 |
Some more disturbing figures, January to August this year saw a 16% or 460,000 head increase in numbers killed compared to last years figures, bringing the total so far to 3.35 Million.