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@Infoseepage @miguelpergamon @ai6yr
IIRC, average age at slaughter (peak profit) is 5~6 weeks for a meat chicken, 30 weeks for an egg-layer. (Different breeds, not interchangeable.)
So, a chicken meat farm that culls because of avian flu is back in production in a month. An egg farm takes 4+ months to recover. IF they can get the sex-selected chicks from the chick factories.
@WellsiteGeo @Infoseepage @miguelpergamon @ai6yr Also, meat chickens and eggs are in different price-fixing cartels. It's not purely supply and demand when there are firms with pricing power. A monopoly or cartelized oligopoly will intentionally restrict output and quality to sell at higher prices. It's not that the industry can't recover quickly, but that the flu culls provide cover for their economic manipulation--so people don't as easily notice a staple food item is no longer a commodity.