A month has passed with birds confined due to avian flu, which affects the price of eggs.

Spain has now been keeping all its breeding poultry outdoors confined for a month to protect against the avian flu virus, which has led to the culling of over 2.5 million animals, mostly laying hens, and has impacted the price of eggs, which saw a 6.8% increase in November. This was acknowledged this week by the sectoral table for laying and meat poultry, indicating that the impact of the influenza "has conditioned the census of laying hens and has had a significant effect on the evolution of the price of eggs, which is now 30% higher than in 2024." Meanwhile, the hens remain confined and protected because the circulation of the virus in wild birds is significant, as demonstrated by the outbreaks declared weekly in different parts of the country. This confinement is having an effect because for a month and a half now, the country has not declared any outbreaks in farms, which brings it closer to achieving the status of being free of avian influenza with the benefits that this ...