Why Is There An Egg Shortage 2024 Reddit. As crosscut reported, an avian flu outbreak caused egg supplies to drop and prices to soar. The pandemic and inflation play a role in rising egg prices, but the real culprit is an outbreak of h5n1, a highly transmissible and fatal strain of avian.

We culled millions of birds and it takes several months for new ones to mature to egg layers. Our egg wall is empty, we haven’t received any in nearly 3 weeks.