Some poultry growers are turning to innovative tactics to protect their flocks, deploying deterrents like drones, air horns, balloons and decoy predators.
Category: Eggs
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Lasers, Inflatable Dancers and the Fight to Fend Off Avian Flu
Some poultry growers are turning to innovative tactics to protect their flocks, deploying deterrents like drones, air horns, balloons and decoy predators.
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Tiny Love Stories: ‘You Are Meant to Be With a Woman’
Modern Love in miniature, featuring reader-submitted stories of no more than 100 words.
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In Paris, a Fashion Store That Moonlights as a Small Hotel
Plus: fringe accessories, a musician inspired by stream-of-consciousness audio messages and more from T’s cultural compendium.
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U.S. Food Prices Rose 0.2% in May
Prices at grocery stores and restaurants rose 0.2 percent last month from April, an increase after prices remained flat the two months before.
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U.S. Considers Vaccinating Chickens Amid Bird Flu Outbreak
The largest outbreak of avian influenza in U.S. history has driven up egg prices and raised concerns about a human pandemic, though C.D.C. experts say the risk of that is low.
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Egg Shortages Are Driving Demand for Raise-at-Home Chickens
People are snapping up chickens that are “heavy layers” in response to egg inflation. The chick situation holds lessons about the broader economy.
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The Newest Contraband at the Mexican Border: Eggs
There has been an increase in the number of people trying to bring eggs into the United States, where the price has surged, driven in part by a bird flu outbreak.