As customers face empty shelves and rapidly rising egg prices at the supermarket due to the avian flu and a lower national supply, breakfast lovers have another option - their own backyard.
Both were in Elbert County. The birds affected were broilers, which are not egg-laying chickens, and 205,000 of the 157 million affected birds have ben in Georgia. Matthew Agvent, the ...
Meanwhile, the price of chicken meat has hardly budged, up less than 1 percent from a year ago. Here’s why egg-laying chickens have been more affected and where prices could go from here.
With the price of eggs skyrocketing, some shoppers are considering keeping their own backyard laying hens, but experts say there are drawbacks that may make that chicken coop more expensive than ...