It's the chicken, not the egg. A highly pathogenic avian flu strain has been circulating in North America since 2022, and it has recently taken root at poultry farms across the country, according to ...
chickens at infected farms must be culled. As of now, approximately 4.47 million birds have been or are scheduled to be culled this season, the majority of which are egg-laying hens. "Will the ...
In early January, 75,200 egg-laying chickens were killed in Stanislaus ... “People ask me why don’t I raise my prices and I tell them that I like to be able to sleep at night,” he said.