Wisconsin continues to make more eggs as the avian flu outbreak from 2015 becomes a more distant memory. The U-S-D-A says the Badger State produced 151-million eggs in October, four-percent more than September and five-percent more than the same time last year. Officials say Wisconsin had about six-point-seven million egg laying chickens in October, 15-percent more than one year ago — about 70-percent more than the four-million chickens on hand in June of 2015 near the peak of the flu outbreak that killed millions of chickens and turkeys across the Upper Midwest. With more chickens, each is doing less work these days — as the average number of eggs for every 100 laying chickens dropped by eight-percent in Wisconsin to about 22-hundred-50.
USDA: State Egg Production Keeps Growing
Nov 27, 2017 | 12:45 PM
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