This monstrous mama laid the world’s largest egg. It was 10 feet tall and weighed more than 1,000 pounds. But that didn’t stop it from going extinct. ... The average chicken egg ...

Cal-Maine Foods lost about 1.9 million chickens, or 3.6% of its flock, as a result of an outbreak at a Texas plant. The CDC says, however, that a person is unlikely to get bird flu from eggs.

At the same time, Hickman's Egg Ranch, which is Arizona's largest egg producer and one of the nation's top 20 producers, has had to destroy the chickens at three of its four farms due to the bird flu.

The onset of the Great Depression and food rationing during World War II further boosted Petaluma’s egg market as Americans sought more affordable protein sources, and eggs were golden. Chickens ...