So I'm out of state right now and don't know the price in my area but I can offer some insight on why they're so high in the first place.
This year had been exceptionally bad with the avian flu. We got a bad strain in recent years and any time a chicken is suspected of having it the shed is culled to prevent further outbreak. This year a record setting 57 million chickens have been culled. To put it in perspective, the previous record was 50 million. The reason chicken (meat) has stayed relatively on par with inflation is because meat chickens are easier to replace than egg-laying chickens.
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Reply to Egg prices by tiredmom07
So I'm out of state right now and don't know the price in my area but I can offer some insight on why they're so high in the first place.
This year had been exceptionally bad with the avian flu. We got a bad strain in recent years and any time a chicken is suspected of having it the shed is culled to prevent further outbreak. This year a record setting 57 million chickens have been culled. To put it in perspective, the previous record was 50 million. The reason chicken (meat) has stayed relatively on par with inflation is because meat chickens are easier to replace than egg-laying chickens.