It all seems like some sort of sick yolk.

How can there be a turkey shortage? Last I checked, Congress is still in session.

Part of this came from the way we raise chickens and turkeys in this country. I wonder: will cage-free eggs suddenly be the only eggs available?

Rationing is an attempt to be 'fair' in the allocation of scarce resources.
For a good exposition of what the word 'fair' means see very early in Atlas Shrugged when Dagny talks to Jim Taggert about buying rail, Jim says 'It isn't fair'.

This story, may, possibly be true- 1950-era Eastern Europe.

There is a rumor that meat is available, a long line forms outside the meat market.
At 8 in the morning the market door opens, and a man steps out.
He announces, "There is not enough meat for everyone.
If you are Jewish, you might as well go home." Several people leave.

At 10 the door opens, the man steps out and says,
"I'm sorry, but there is not enough meat.
If you are not a Party member, you might as well go home."
Most of the people leave.

At 4 PM the man appears again and says,
"I'm so terribly sorry. There isn't any meat at all."
One Party member turns to another and grumbles,
"Isn't that the way it always is? The Jews get the best of everything!"

Who needs three cartons of eggs? The Duggar family?

I shop at Central Market, which is owned by H-E-B. I went there today, and the only thing I saw was a sign at the egg section saying they are not selling eggs to commercial clients. There was no 3-carton limit.

I'll count myself lucky (so far) to live in the relatively isolated North Country of New York State. I can get eggs from organically raised chickens at my gym.

See? That's the kind of business altruism that I applaud. The chain has CHOSEN (do you understand that word, members of the ruling class?) to restrict sales so individual households can get some eggs. That's the kind of ethos that I like to see!

But is the flu real? Or is it a gov't-mandated killing, engineered to induce an artificial shortage & thus raise prices for poultry & eggs? The price of beef is going up, now poultry & eggs. Medical care, food in general, college education...I mean come on already. It getting so out of control.

This is absurd. It violates what should be economic common sense. Nobody who wants eggs in Texas will not be able to get them. Rationing does not work. These businesses are missing a great opportunity to increase their profits, and thus their ability to obtain more eggs. They would be accused of price gauging if they did this, but this is the best way to efficiently distribute scarce resources, and to provide the resources to resolve the problem.

Hazlitt has a great chapter on this in his Economics In One Lesson. Here is my summary:

Chapter 17. Government Price Fixing. As seen in the previous chapter, efforts to artificially fix a price above current market levels doesn’t work. Neither does fixing it below the current value (usually attempted during wartime, and often lingering after). Unfortunately, this has the advantage of making politicians popular with consumers. They argue that prices should be based on what people need rather than how much they can pay; they aim to keep the cost of living from rising.
All price fixing increases demand and reduces supply (because profit margins are diminished, and marginal producers are put out of business). To avoid shortages, politicians try rationing, cost-control, subsidies, or universal price-fixing. Rationing limits the price and the quantity purchased (just like a free market would), but it does not stimulate production (like a free market would). Cost-control merely creates shortages of the items being controlled. Subsidies benefit the consumers, especially the wealthy, at the expense of the producers and the tax payers.
Price-fixing enables tyranny because fixing one item will lead to fixing another, and “A power over a man’s subsistence amounts to a power over his will” (Alexander Hamilton).
Price-fixing encourages the black market, causing harm “both economic and moral” (the black market is inefficient, and temps consumers to break the law). Politicians try it because they fail to understand that prices and shortages are caused by true scarcity or increase money supply. “Each one of us is a producer [wanting inflation], taxpayer [resenting subsidies], and consumer [wanting price control].” Each may seek political power for personal benefit, but they are deceiving themselves. “For not only must there be as much loss as gain from this political manipulation of prices; there must be a great deal more loss than gain, because price-fixing discourages and disrupts employment and production.”

Reminds me of the gas crisis in 1979. I was moving from California to my home state of Washington, driving a large U-Haul truck, with my car in tow and probably getting 5 miles per gallon.
One gas station I stopped at had a 5 gallon limit! Really...! So...I drove down the block and filled up at the next station (who didn't have a limit).
I wonder who the winner in THAT contest was.

"Never put all your eggs in one basket" comes to mind. :)

Raise my own eggs and meat chickens. Hunt for wild turkeys if I want turkey. Living in my gulch and watching the world flailing like a hurt chicken priceless.

And so it begins.
Food shortages in the USA?
Atlas' greatest creation whose prosperity was the wonder of the 20th century is running out of a staple food? What's next? The Pirate says it'll be turkeys. I wonder what will happen if it becomes less marginal foods. A.R. was no Nostradamus, but A is A and if certain people create certain events as promulgated in the novel -- there will be shortages. I wonder how our millions of mooches with their jaws wide open like newly hatched birds will react when nothing falls into their open mouths.

Rationing: A technique to raise the price of some item and thereby increase profits.

How can there be a shortage of eggs from an event that happened two months ago when the eggs in the stores have been in cold storage for a minimum of two years. Yes, this is true. Eggs keep for a very long time and are one of the items on the commodities market, along with pork bellies, ham, grain, corn, ........and the list goes on. Big investors and companies started buying and then selling when "Profits were higher" a long time ago. Simple economics, eggs from two or three years ago are sold at a higher price today. If you doubt this look up the Mill-spec on cold storing eggs. Three years for cold, 7 years for frozen. If you want "fresh eggs" by a chicken.

HEB is smart. HEB is not addressing national egg shortage but is more prudently addressing customer base. Store nearby "discounts" eggs regularly at 4 cartons for $5, limit 4 per purchase episode (which means once through the cash register line). Member-type chain store sells eggs in bulk and IS geared up to serve small restaurants. Without government interdiction, the normal feast-or-famine cycles are narrowed by progress in cultivation and supply-demand and the grocers and consumers have become creative in adapting. But the government as we have know it has always [adversely] influenced the producer and the consumer and induced starvation.

I am always suspicious, when it involves the food supply. Exactly how did the avian flu get in the area> Remember, Agenda 21 wants control of what we eat as well. O has been pushing get your food withing 100 miles of your home - yeah, get veggies in the Midwest in the dead of winter? I always remember the story of how Khrushchev starved villages who opposed his rise, for his own gain.