U.S. egg prices have fallen 60% from last year’s record highs, making it easier for consumers to fill their Easter baskets and Passover Seder plates. Retail prices averaged $2.50 per dozen in February compared to $6.23 per dozen in March 2025. Bird flu was to blame for the spikes seen last year, and it’s a big reason prices are so much lower now. An outbreak forced farmers and commercial producers to slaughter entire broods of egg-laying hens, but cases ebbed in the second half of 2025. Egg supplies also have improved as farmers replenish poultry flocks they lost to bird flu.