This time, it's different. The 2021 flu outbreak sparked immediate, substantial, ongoing, durable increases in the price of eggs. The number of layers has plunged, driven by a dramatic decrease in the size of the "parent" flock, from whose fertilized eggs we get out supply of layers - from 3.1m hens in 2021 to 2.5m in 2025. The numbers don't tell the whole story, either - the parent flock is, on average, much older than historical norms, meaning that it produces fewer eggs.
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