These days it’s not the size of the chicken but the size of the chicken ... SWNS that it took their hen Gail five hours to lay the enormous egg. The oversized egg weighed more than 6 ounces ...

The short answer is that there are chickens for meat (broilers) and chickens for eggs (layers), and they’re not the same: They’re raised separately and have different lifespans. In fact, for the past ...

Those deaths have totaled over 166 million birds in the U.S. since 2022. Most birds killed are egg-laying chickens, and the death of so many hens is the main reason egg prices keep rising.