Vastator
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Hens in a commercial environment can be productive egg, layers for a couple years. Meat birds depending on breed can go from egg to table in 6 months. Egg layers are a sustained investment. Meat birds are turnkey. The bird flu kill off have wrecked hen houses. I won't use the popular word "decimated" which isn't really that bad. It means reduced by 10%. The kill off in the egg laying hen houses was much more destructive than that...The answer I believe would be that the bird flu hit the egg laying operations harder than the chickens for meat operations.