Bird flu is causing egg prices to hit the coop roof and raise by about 30 percent
According to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, the average price of a dozen grade A large eggs was $4.15 during the month of December—an increase from $2.51 in December 2023.
Reason shelves won’t be empty anymore
Hundreds of thousands of chickens were put down on one farm in the Hawkesbury region, just outside Sydney, as the H7N8 avian influenza strain was detected in mid-2024.This H7 strain is not the variant ...