HOUSTON — It’s been a tough couple of years ... Since January 2022, close to 95 million egg-laying hens, nearly a third of all commercial laying hens in the country, have been impacted ...
The Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza (HPAI) was either directly or indirectly responsible for killing more than 20 million egg-laying hens in the last quarter of 2024, according to the U.S.