AP Spotlight As egg prices soar, grocers scramble to limit how many cartons customers can buy JOSH FUNK and WYATTE GRANTHAM-PHILIPS Associated Press Feb 12, 2025 Feb 12, 2025 Updated Feb 4, 2026 0 Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Not only are eggs expensive because of the ongoing bird flu outbreak. Now they are getting hard to find.kAm(96? 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How to cook the perfect boiled egg, according to science It's a recipe you can test for yourself — though the timing isn't ideal with soaring egg prices in the U.S. from a bird flu outbreak.
Soaring egg prices are piquing interest in backyard chickens Thinking about backyard chickens as egg prices soar? Think hard, especially in light of the bird flu outbreak.
Waffle House is passing along the sky high cost of eggs to diners with a 50 cent surcharge Bird flu is forcing farmers to slaughter millions of chickens a month, pushing U.S. egg prices to more than double their cost in the summer of 2023.
