Has it also been affecting the price of chicken? I know that egg prices were a sticking point from the election so there’s a focus on that, but if it’s an avian flu that’s affecting chickens, would that also cause the price of any chicken product to go up? I feel like I haven’t heard anything around meat prices going up.
https://www.farmtransparency.org/kb/food/abattoirs/age-animals-slaughtered
One factor here is that they typically kill egg laying hens a little bit later than they do for broiler chickens. They typically do so once they are 18 months old (since egg laying rates declines and they are then seen as waste). This is in comparison to broiler chickens who are slaughtered even younger at just 5-7 weeks old. Faster to bring back the broiler population after killing all of them due to disease if you were going to kill them in a few weeks regardless of disease