(FILES) A sign limiting egg purchases to three per member is displayed on empty shelves due to limited supplies of eggs for sale at a Costco Wholesale warehouse store in Hawthorne, California on February 10, 2025. A farm animal business in Houston sold 100 hens in four days, a number they usually reach in a month. With the price of eggs skyrocketing, several Americans prefer to get theirs at home. The recent outbreak of avian flu, which first hit the US in 2022, is hitting large poultry farms hard. More than 21 million laying hens have been culled this year due to the disease, according to data released by the Department of Agriculture. In December, 13.2 million suffered the same fate. (Photo by Patrick T. Fallon / AFP) (Photo by PATRICK T. FALLON/AFP via Getty Images)