A plan by Gov. Katie Hobbs to use her powers to make eggs more affordable might not be all it's cracked up to be.

The U.S. has almost doubled imports of Brazilian eggs once used only for pet food and is considering relaxing regulations for ...

The increase is due to the limited number of hens laying eggs right now ... and processing 21 million broiler chickens a week for sale of their meat into the consumer market.

By Cathy Wurzer and Gracie Stockton There is a rush to begin raising backyard chickens as grocery store egg prices continue to skyrocket amid shortages blamed on bird flu. In recent days, KARE 11 ...

Fewer than 150 commercial egg farms with flocks of at least 75,000 now house over 95% of egg-laying hens, the United Egg Producers trade group estimates. Among large operators, at least three in ...

Consumers frustrated with high egg prices may either decide to give up their favorite breakfast food, cut out the baking or take the plunge into raising their own laying hens. But experts on ...

She told NBC10 during the colder months she’s able to collect about two to three eggs a day and eight eggs a day during the warmer months when the chickens lay more. Recently, many Americans ...

The threat of bird flu has already meant that more than 166 million egg-laying hens have been culled since the outbreak began, in 2022. As a result, the price of eggs is predicted to climb 41 ...

Those deaths have totaled over 166 million birds in the U.S. since 2022. Most birds killed are egg-laying chickens, and the death of so many hens is the main reason egg prices keep rising.