# The rise in chicken prices is unrelated to the affiliated businesses.

> South Korean industry sources say chicken price increases stem from supply shortages after highly pathogenic avian influenza led to about 440,000 breeding hens being culled over winter 2025/2026, roughly 3.5 times the prior year. The culling cut about 5% of breeder hens, reducing broiler chick and chicken meat output.

- Date: 2026-04-06 · published 2026-04-06T12:00:00.000Z
- Category: disease · region South Korea · magnitude low
- Page: https://feedsoft.ai/events/19877-the-rise-in-chicken-prices-is-unrelated-to-the-affiliated-businesses
- Commodities: [Chicken](https://feedsoft.ai/c/CHICKEN.md)

## Why it matters

Reduced breeder flocks tighten broiler supply, supporting chicken prices and potentially raising demand for substitute proteins in feed-linked markets. Continued disease pressure keeps the supply outlook constrained.

## Read by commodity

- CHICKEN: bullish ▲

## Sources

- tridge.com: https://www.tridge.com/news/the-rise-in-chicken-prices-is-unrelated-to-t-urpcoega

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