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Virus shortages encourage home-raising of chickens
Virus shortages encourage home-raising of chickens
A recent nationwide development amid the circumstances of the coronavirus (COVID-19) fallout has been a staggering increase in demand for live chickens due to nationwide shortages in meat and dairy products.
A recent article in The Washington Post says that people are now raising chickens in their own backyards to supplement increasing egg costs and shortages in local supermarkets. A recent article by USA Today states that in certain states (particularly northeastern states suffering the hardest from the coronavirus crisis), “Regionwide, egg retailers’ orders from wholesalers have increased by anywhere from double to 600 percent.”