Historic high egg prices and shortages being fueled by worsening bird flu epidemic. Here's what to know about egg purchase limits and egg rationing ...

Empty egg shelves are more common across the U.S., as a bird flu outbreak has taken a tremendous toll on poultry since it ...

The Department of Agriculture warned egg prices may increase more than 20% this year, after December saw a year-over-year ...

Now four years later, a dozen eggs costs an average of nearly $5 in the U.S. because of the lingering bird flu, so Nevada ...

Billy Underhill, the 62-year-old owner of a construction company and longtime chicken raiser, has bought two more of the clucking creatures.

Not only are eggs expensive because of the ongoing bird flu outbreak . Now they are getting hard to find. And even when ...

farmers can’t make money if chickens aren’t laying eggs. “If you have 100 chickens, 50 of them are molting,” Bunzow said. “You’re not going to make as much money. That’s why they raise the prices.” ...

According to Myrna Kauffman with “The Hen House,” chickens can start laying eggs anywhere from 18 weeks old to six months old. But it all depends on the animals’ happiness. “It’s a ...

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Can’t find eggs at your local grocery store? You’re not alone. The recent H5N1 bird flu has led to the culling of millions of egg-laying chickens, leading to higher egg prices and egg shortages across ...

Bird flu outbreaks led to the loss of 13.2 million egg-laying chickens in December 2024, according to the USDA’s weekly overview. Those losses, which occurred during the annual period of peak holiday ...

a process that involves putting eggs in incubators, raising new chicks and waiting for them to begin laying. At the end of December, a dozen large, Grade A eggs in the United States cost an ...