Egg prices skyrocket 52% in TWO MONTHS as bird flu decimates commercial flocks | Daily Mail Online
Egg prices are skyrocketing as a bird-flu outbreak ravages commercial chicken flocks in the U.S., with the price of a dozen large eggs spiking more than 52% in just under two months.
The avian flu outbreak also threatens to raise prices on other poultry products in the coming months as deaths from the disease continue to mount.
Shell egg prices are currently sitting at $2.88 a dozen on average - the highest since the beginning of the pandemic, according to the Wall Street Journal, citing market research firm Urner Barry.
Prices for a dozen eggs have spiked a staggering 52 percent since February 8, when the USDA confirmed the first case in a US commercial flock in Indiana.
To make matters worse, the price increase comes during one of the biggest periods of the year for egg sales: Easter.
'Egg availability heading into Easter is sure to be hampered,' Brian Earnest, an animal protein economist at CoBank, told the Journal.
The population of egg-laying chickens in the U.S. has also been declining for years, going from more than 340 million in April 2019 to around 322 million in February 2022, Earnest said.
Egg prices are skyrocketing as a bird-flu outbreak ravages commercial chicken flocks in the U.S., with the price of a dozen large eggs spiking more than 52% in just under two months.
The avian flu outbreak also threatens to raise prices on other poultry products in the coming months as deaths from the disease continue to mount.
Shell egg prices are currently sitting at $2.88 a dozen on average - the highest since the beginning of the pandemic, according to the Wall Street Journal, citing market research firm Urner Barry.
Prices for a dozen eggs have spiked a staggering 52 percent since February 8, when the USDA confirmed the first case in a US commercial flock in Indiana.
To make matters worse, the price increase comes during one of the biggest periods of the year for egg sales: Easter.
'Egg availability heading into Easter is sure to be hampered,' Brian Earnest, an animal protein economist at CoBank, told the Journal.
The population of egg-laying chickens in the U.S. has also been declining for years, going from more than 340 million in April 2019 to around 322 million in February 2022, Earnest said.
gave that bytch away to one of my workers who prolly fried her ass up. It was a mini chicken too
