With egg prices soaring in the U.S. due to avian flu affecting egg-laying chickens, the USDA is examining egg production methods in other countries. In Canada, egg supply remains robust, with an abundance of choice available. Factors such as tightly sealed barns, fewer free-range chickens, and smaller farm sizes contribute to this stability. Canadian farms typically have about 25,000 hens compared to over a million on many U.S. farms, which means that localized outbreaks affect supply less severely in Canada.
We have not had any shortage of eggs... We can choose from 14 different types of eggs.
Canadian barns are more tightly sealed, helping keep the flu virus out, and we have fewer free-range chickens.
In Canada, individual farms have about 25,000 laying hens... while many U.S. farms have over a million.
American farmers have put a lot more of their eggs in a relatively small number of baskets.
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