Of course the shortage is manufactured, and even small farms and peoples personal chickens have been laying less due to changes in the feed. Culling of flocks over FAKE bird flu, causing massive egg shortage,.
Flu vaccines as well as other traditional vaccines are created in EGGS, and if there is a shortage of eggs than there is a problem, and they will come up with the solution.
mRNA Flu vaccines for everyone for now on, heck mRNA vaccines for ALL traditional vaccines that used EGGS.
THIS is their plan! I bet.
The shortage is real, but it was manufactured last year when they set all the chicken farms ablaze and killed all the laying hens that supply the commercial egg market. They have to raise up replacement hens now.
Once again - I'd believe the shortage was real if the display cases at my local grocery stores were not full all the time like they currently are. I think this "shortage" is like the lumber "shortage" a couple years ago - manufactured to drive up the costs. Funny, don't seem to have the same "shortage" in fresh/frozen chicken. Chickens start producing eggs in as little as 18 weeks, BTW - if the shortage was because of the need to re-populate then it sure is taking a long time since the bird flu that's being blamed peaked in the middle of 2022.
Chicken meat and chicken eggs are two totally different things. It only takes 6-8 weeks to raise chicken meat the natural way, and the commercial industry can do it in 30 days with growth hormones. Egg laying hens take months to raise and even longer to lay on a regular basis. It was the layers that were attacked last year, tens of thousands of chickens were killed in fires. They had to start over. The only eggs at my local store are the really expensive organic pasture raised eggs that no one wanted to pay ridiculous prices for. Shelves are empty here and signs everywhere limiting the purchase of eggs so no one can stock up. Even my mother in law told me yesterday she's been without eggs for a while now. I sent her home with eggs from our hens.
And I didn't imply it wasn't manufactured, I just don't think they are sitting on a pile of rotten eggs losing money because they refuse to sell them, like canada was sitting on a pile of lumber they wouldn't send across the border to us, very different scenario because lumber won't go bad on you like an egg will. But the fires were likely a planned attack to cause shortages. Too many cases of fires the last few years to be a coincidence.
I'm not doubting what you are seeing at your local stores - my local stores are PACKED with eggs - why would that be? From my observations, from what I can see with my own eyes - there is no shortage of eggs local to where I am. I understand the difference in time between raising chickens for slaughter and raising egg laying hens - I even stated the time it takes for them to start laying eggs (18 weeks) and when the peak of the flock destruction occurred. Was I incorrect in those times?
Also when you consider how long it takes a chick to start laying an egg, you have to scale that up to the millions and millions of chickens we lost last year. So we take the few we have left, use their eggs to hatch more chickens so they can grow up and lay eggs, and do this over and over until those numbers are replenished. I imagine eggs will be expensive for a while. It's going to take several rounds of chickens being raised up until we replace the tens of millions we lost and are back at egg layer capacity, producing the number of eggs we were able to before all this started. This kind of scaling doesn't happen in 18 weeks.
You used the time frame of the bird flu but I'm talking about all the places that were set on fire. This has been going on non stop. Someone is going around burning down food production facilities, from grain storage to hen houses. And I just saw someone posted a story here today, another 100,000 chickens dead in a fire... it just keeps happening, there seems to be an agenda here. https://www.courant.com/breaking-news/hc-br-bozrah-farm-fire-20230129-cvpyvoueb5cpvpfvw2viuh3w6e-story.html
As far as eggs on your shelf, that's great, the people in your area probably just aren't buying them because of the inflated prices. Eggs aren't exactly a necessity. The shortage isn't localized, it's nationwide. Local farms will still have eggs. Backyard chicken keepers (like myself) still have eggs. But the cheap eggs at the stores are in shortage and not everyone wants to pay tipple or more the cost so it doesn't surprise me if some shelves aren't completely empty.