Egg prices increase to record high despite Trump's predictions and bird flu outbreak slowing
Source: AP
Updated 5:42 PM EDT, April 10, 2025
U.S. egg prices increased again last month to reach a new record-high of $6.23 per dozen despite President Donald Trump’s predictions, a drop in wholesale prices and no egg farms having bird flu outbreaks.
The increase reported Thursday in the Consumer Price Index means consumers and businesses that rely on eggs might not get much immediate relief. Demand for eggs is typically elevated until after Easter, which falls on April 20.
Industry experts were expecting the index to reflect a drop in retail egg prices because wholesale egg prices fell significantly in March.
University of Arkansas agricultural economist Jada Thompson said the wholesale prices did not start dropping until mid-March, so there may not have been enough time for the average price for the month to decline. And grocery stores may not have immediately passed on the lower prices.
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(including watching my sister's former neighbor - the neighbor has since passed away - who had backyard chickens and *turkeys* !!!!!! 
) - it takes about 6 months from chick to egg-laying. So that shouldn't necessarily be an issue for those impacted last year.
Her neighbor used to work as a teacher at a Montessori school and would work with the little ones at the school with chicks. Then she would bring them home to raise in her yard. When my niece was young, she got to learn how to handle them and go over there to collect the eggs. A few times when I went to visit and rolled up in the driveway, I would find they had gotten out of the backyard and were in the front yard all gathered together pecking/scratching. I learned where the "food can" was so I could herd them back to their coop. 
My sister's neighbor all of a sudden started getting interested in certain "specialty" types and tried to explain one of the times I went over there and she showed us her incubator that she was using to hatch her own chicks. So there could also be some variance on maturity date too. But they do grow fast and I won't even get into the turkeys (their wings were clipped but they would hop on my sister's fence and then into her yard and I'd get a text with a pic with a white turkey wandering around the yard)! 
And then there was the time she decided (briefly) to keep a rooster with the hens. And he was LOUD!
know that all too well....
