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The number at this operation alone comprised a little over 1% of egg-laying hens in the United States. [4] As of May 27, over 25 million chickens had either died of the infection or been euthanized in Iowa alone. [5] Nebraska's toll at the same date was 7 million—a majority of the state's 9.45 million egg-laying hens. [6]
[1] [2] Worldwide, around 7 billion male chicks are culled each year in the egg industry. [3] Because male chickens do not lay eggs and only those in breeding programmes are required to fertilise eggs, they are considered redundant to the egg-laying industry and are usually killed shortly after being sexed, which occurs just days after they are ...
In the last few months alone, since the middle of October, we've lost 45 million egg-laying hens," he added. "We've lost a significant amount of production, more than 13%. So we're just dealing ...
In the late 1990s, Darrel and his son David Rettig were attempting to construct a highly autonomous egg laying facility. With the financial backing of Glen Taylor , REI was founded. In June 2015, the company killed all of their 5.5 to 5.6 million chickens using carbon dioxide and foam after a detected case of avian influenza. [ 6 ]
Iowa's losses to the fall wave of highly pathogenic avian influenza now exceed 2 million birds.
The theory gained steam on Facebook, TikTok and Twitter in recent weeks, with some users reporting that their hens stopped laying eggs and speculating that common chicken feed products were the cause.
[1] A 2015 avian bird flu outbreak in the American Midwest struck the breaker egg-laying hens and forced breaker egg prices higher. [2] By the end of 2015, prices were again on the down-swing. [3] Another avian influenza that forced the destruction of tens of millions of chickens in 2022 again led to skyrocketing prices for breaker eggs. [1]
You've probably heard about female chickens being kept in poor conditions, laying eggs in cages too small for them, but the male chicks face something else. Egg producers pledge to stop grinding ...