>Several reasons: 1) reduction in numbers of laying hens because prices
>were too low for producers to make money. 2) slaughter of flocks for
>meat. 3) increased demand because of low-carb popularity. 4) holiday
>season.
>
>Pastorio

Another reason.
Buckeye Farms has been court ordered to close.

http://www.buzzle.com/editorials/8-22-2003-44501.asp

"Buckeye Egg produces four percent of the nations eggs - 2.6 billion last
year."

~Kat


"I think I would like to call myself 'the girl who wanted to be God'. Yet if I
were not in this body, where would I be--perhaps I am destined to be classified
and qualified. But, oh, I cry out aginst it." --Sylvia Plath