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Message: <blockquote data-quote="SoonerP226" data-source="post: 3978151" data-attributes="member: 26737">When you lose an egg layer, you don’t just lose that bird’s production, you also lose the eggs from the next generation that it takes to replace her. (Some of those eggs will not make it, and some will be male, so it’s not like it just takes one egg to replace one laying hen.) So, in the interim, you’re not just down in production, you also have producer replacement competing with production for consumption. If that happens while they’re in a normal downswing of egg production (hens usually lay fewer eggs in the winter), that’s just going to make things worse. It’ll take time to replace the production of those destroyed chickens, but the good news is that it will eventually happen... unless the  gov’t decides to “help,” that is. In that case, all bets are off…</blockquote>