Chicken prices are not suffering the same price hikes because broilers, the variety bred for meat production, are a different kind of chicken. According to The Hill, egg-laying chickens have been harder hit by the avian flu.

Eggs have been a hot and expensive commodity lately. Multiple major retailers have enacted an egg limit while Waffle House recently added a surcharge to every egg ordered. You likely won’t, however, find a limit on how many packages of chicken breasts you can purchase at your local grocery store,

Still, a lack of eggs and steep prices may lead consumers to move to other cheap forms of protein, which could lead to consumer-induced shortages and price increases, one expert told USA TODAY. Egg-laying hens and broiler chickens – poultry raised for meat – are different,