I thought about that after I signed off that I expressed that wrong. I just don't think of two, three hundred million chickens as hundreds upon hundreds of millions of chickens, it may be true to an extend but it is on the lower tier of the hundreds of millions.
The 375 million comes from what the USDA tracks commercially, not private back yard chickens, nor does that include the chickens that the government keeps in secure top secret guarded locations for vaccine production.
The most common stat stated for chickens lost since the 375 figure in 2022, is a loss of 122 million chickens, of which they claim the first two months of this year they lost an additional 25% of that, they claim that brought them down to 290 million chickens but obviously some have had to have been replaced before that loss otherwise it would have stood at 253 million. 82.5 out of a hundred chickens is the number they gave of each hen who lays one egg daily right now. They also said the current retail sale of eggs is nine million dozen eggs a day. So out of that 290 million chickens they say are alive, kicking, 82.5 out of a hundred of them produce one egg a day. You can go ahead and calculate all that up for a yearly total and minus the nine million dozen a day sold to see what's left over, or you can wait until I finally email a friend who is exceptionally skilled at math. Which I have intended to do since Easter when all those fresh stats came out, it's just I am not fully back up to par with the important battles being raged no matter how significant it may be to be in the know.

Your continued denial of what Trump trade agreements had on retail sales is appalling at best. The government tracks exports out of this country, they don't lie when starting as soon as he exits office having signed the agreements on his way out, those products started flying out of this country. Like I said, it takes time to do trade agreements and the spike was immediate. All the graphs prove me right. One of the one's that stands out among all the others, as I may have mentioned this already, was the stark reality of what happened with the rise in pet food and it wasn't just canned food due to aluminum price increase, it was five bucks alone on a large bag of dry pet food....due to China coming in and offering over four hundred million for chicken paws, 422 was the exact number if I remember correctly. Before that pet food manufacturers were paying 22 million for them. Chicken paws in China are a common food item over there, here they are generally ground up for pet food. 386% rise in beef to China, 79% increase of potatoes to Japan, (with potatoes it's not just the increased demand and inflation, you have to also factor in the potato price fixing scam, if I remember correctly Canadian potato farmers engaged in), that all drove a ten pound bag of potatoes up to eight to nine bucks.
Whether you like it or not, or want to keep burying your head in the sand, Trump is the master of delusions, get over the fact he sold you on that poor soybean farmer and face the reality if he'd said your steak, eggs and potatoes, you'd paid better attention.
One other thing with Trump is that timing is everything. No I do not believe they really lost 25% of chickens just in the first two months of this year. I would be of the opinion that if there was a loss of chickens they were sold off in a special deal to be used as boilers, which only saw a 2% decline in the first two months of the year. How can there be such a significant difference, it's as if the bird flu only strikes egg laying hens. That slight loss saw rotisserie chickens here drop by a buck in price. That's a steep sudden drop. I am with somewhat with you in the fact prices are now going down, and it's not because of any other reason than Trump has met his objective to spring a vaccine on the chicken industry and by no means should that even be allowed. It sort of reminds me when the amount of deaths he projected for covid was met, he said "we have met the moment". (When he first quoted the figure he thought it would be close to 60, 70, 80 thousand people, enough to fill up Yankee stadium). He has met his moment with the vaccine, it's a done deal. There probably won't be as much a spike again until they get ready to roll it out and they start arguing over it.