October 4, 2026
While today there is an egg glut, the history of egg-laying hens indicates we could soon have an egg shortage.
While today there is an egg glut, the history of egg-laying hens indicates we could soon have an egg shortage.
With both originating in a chicken, we can wonder why egg prices are soaring but chicken wing prices are not.
Because raising egg laying chickens takes us to gargantuan numbers, it is easier to see why avian flu affected the price of eggs.
To explain what has been called an egg glut, we can look at egg laying hens, at the changing number of eggs they produce, and at our egg consumption.
Sort of like coach or first class, most of the chickens that lay our eggs live in a battery or a colony cage. In the typical […]