My question is how is the US exporting many millions of dollars worth of eggs to foreign nations in the midst of an egg shortage.
As for meat vs egg stock...how does the virus know the difference?
Most meat birds go from day old chick to butchered in less than two months.
Egg birds take around 6-9 months before they start laying.
Kill off a million birds and you lose 365 million eggs until the replacements are producing.
That costs farmers money.
Feeding birds for 6-9 months with no ROI, then having to purchase/incubate new stock, further reducing consumer egg availability, and another 6-9 months of feeding birds before you can hope to start recouping your losses.
Result: high egg prices.