Liberal Forum

One reason is that Canada’s egg farming operations are much smaller than those in the United States, and dispersed throughout the country, which has helped mitigate avian influenza’s impact on production.
 In Canada, the average egg-laying farm has about 25,000 hens, according to Muirhead. In a state like Iowa, the average farm has about 2 million birds.“We don’t have that kind of scale, which means we don’t suffer the same sorts of issues in these bouts of disease that they do in the U.S.,” he said.