Chicken and Eggs report

11 percent of egg-laying hens dead in two months from bird flu

U.S. egg farmers lost 11 percent of their laying hens in two months, the government said - the latest impact of the worst avian influenza epidemic to ever hit the poultry industry.

Is Prop 2 to blame for sharp drop in California egg production?

Egg farms in California produced 323 million eggs in May, a drop of 16 percent from the same month in 2014, says the Chicken and Eggs report.