Chart showing number of parent hens (hens that lay the eggs that grow up to become egg-laying chickens). It declines from ~3.1M in 2021 to 2.5M in 2024.

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   Sarah Taber (sarahtaber@mastodon.online)'s status on Tuesday, 11-Mar-2025 01:40:35 JST Sarah Taber

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   The egg industry knows how to recover from bird flu outbreaks! Raise *more* birds to replace culled ones.

   But they're doing the opposite.

   They're cutting down the parent flocks that replenish egg-laying birds.

   It's not just that "this bird flu is super bad. They're also deliberately avoiding recovery.