Egg prices are expected to continue to drop after the annual Easter spike and as more and more chicks grow up into adult laying hens.
Dallas-Fort Worth area shoppers could find a dozen eggs priced between $2.50 to $2.99 at most area grocers this week. That’s still about 40% higher than before the avian flu, but a bigger improvement from the peak price in January of almost $5.
The hen supply is recovering from the deadly avian flu that forced U.S. farmers to kill more than 40 million egg-laying hens last year.
