The ongoing spread of bird flu will likely affect the price and availability of turkeys this Thanksgiving. Right now the price per pound of an 8-16 pound turkey is $1.99, up 75% from last year. Bird flu typically spreads during the winter, but this year commercial turkey producers were reporting cases of avian flu as early as July. During the last avian flu outbreak in 2015 about 50 million birds were affected. This year alone, 47.6 million birds have been affected and the flu has been detected in 42 states. To control the spread, growers must kill entire flocks, which usually contain about 15,000 birds. The effects of avian flu are compounded by the increased cost to raise turkeys. Turkey feed prices increased more than 10% from August 2021 to August 2022.