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Great Black-backed Gull (Larus marinus), small clutch.Clutch size refers to the number of eggs laid in a single brood by a nesting pair of birds. The numbers laid by a particular species in a given location are usually well defined by evolutionary trade-offs with many factors involved, including resource availability and energetic constraints.
In the 2023 fiscal year, the company sold over 1.1 billion eggs and made 3.1 billion in annual net sales, with over 42.2 million laying hens. ... At least 58 million birds were slaughtered last ...
The average price of a dozen large eggs starkly increased in California in December to $8.97, up from $5.68 in late November, and has remained at that price into the start of the year, according ...
In total, 2024 table egg production is projected at 7,783 million dozen, a decrease of 1% year over year." It also adjusted egg production to be down for the first half of 2025. Because production ...
In a 2017 publication in the journal Science, mathematical modeling of 50,000 bird eggs data showed that bird egg shape is a product of flight adaptations and not the outcome of nesting conditions or a bird's life history. [16]
Gull eggs are usually (but not always) larger than any size of chicken egg; for example, a herring-gull egg typically weighs about 85 g (3.0 oz). [4] [a] One source states that a generalized gull's egg is approximately twice the size of a chicken's egg. [5] Egging is the prehistoric practice of foraging wild-bird eggs.
The number at this operation alone comprised a little over 1% of egg-laying hens in the United States. [4] As of May 27, over 25 million chickens had either died of the infection or been euthanized in Iowa alone. [5] Nebraska's toll at the same date was 7 million—a majority of the state's 9.45 million egg-laying hens. [6]
At that time, eggs in the Midwest hit $5.35 per dozen. Prices have fallen 69% since then, and are currently at $2.06 (wholesale price) per dozen for regionally laid whole eggs, according to USA Today.