The reason chicken prices did not rise with egg prices is that layers, when they are no longer laying enough eggs to be profitable, are turned into chicken soups and chicken broth and chicken bouillon. Even youngish ones, when culled, are not really suitable for cooking as largish pieces of meat.
And if they actually had bird flu when culled they might not havebeen used that way.
Meanwhile the fryers were not culled, mostly. Different flocks and confinement systems may make a difference, too.
Thanks! You'd think I'd know this stuff, given that there are a couple million chickens within a fifty mile radius of where I live. But I don't actually know any chicken farmers.
The reason chicken prices did not rise with egg prices is that layers, when they are no longer laying enough eggs to be profitable, are turned into chicken soups and chicken broth and chicken bouillon. Even youngish ones, when culled, are not really suitable for cooking as largish pieces of meat.
And if they actually had bird flu when culled they might not havebeen used that way.
Meanwhile the fryers were not culled, mostly. Different flocks and confinement systems may make a difference, too.
Thanks! You'd think I'd know this stuff, given that there are a couple million chickens within a fifty mile radius of where I live. But I don't actually know any chicken farmers.