It's a curious thing because millions of chickens were culled due to the bird flu outbreak.
Why have eggs skyrocketed, but chicken meat remained relatively the same price?
My math must be off with this.
Different breeds of chickens. Meat chickens are 5-6 weeks hatched to market. Egg laying chickens lay at 18 weeks. Loosing the egg flock takes way longer to catch back up.
So, are the young chickens in different facilities than the egg laying ones? If the bird flu started in 2022; I'm surprised that only egg layers were culled. Thanks
A flock only needs to be culled if they detect infection in that particular flock. Bird flu is spread flock to flock generally by wild birds. The more bird flu there is at any given time the higher the likelihood of spreading
Thank you, I understand why the chickens were culled & how they get infected. What I didn't understand, is do egg laying chickens get housed in separate facilities from meat chickens.
I would think that if they had to cull diseased chickens, then it would affect the both groups on the same farm.
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Why have eggs skyrocketed, but chicken meat remained relatively the same price?
My math must be off with this.
I would think that if they had to cull diseased chickens, then it would affect the both groups on the same farm.