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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The short answer is no, it is not okay and those birds should not be in the food supply. I do think it's more complicated that cooked meat is fine, but somebody has to handle the raw meat to cook it and that is not fine.[/quote]

Ok, I didn’t think so. I was wondering why there isn’t a chicken shortage or a chicken price hike. [/quote]

Egg chickens are different than meat chickens. [/quote]

Are meat chickens not affected by bird flu?[/quote]

They don't get infected as easily from different flocks. [/quote]

Sorry for the 20 questions, but why is that? Are they a different breed or something?

Also, how does the flu virus reach chickens? Is it from wild birds in the area? Apologies for the dumb questions. [/quote]

NP with some farming background. No, it's not that one kind of chicken is more healthy. It's that they live in different facilities. Contamination in one flock does not (hopefully) affect another.

To answer your original question, in modern farming we eat both male and female chickens, but only hens lay eggs. And, a hen only lays so many eggs per week, it's not a factory line in there. Meanwhile there is more demand for eggs than meat, since eggs are used in all kinds of things including most baking. So, egg prices are more sensitive to flock loss. [/quote]

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