Australian followers of a late morning McDonald’s breakfast are having to get up earlier.The quick meals big has briefly shortened the hours of its breakfast service within the nation by 90 minutes resulting from an egg scarcity brought on by a chicken flu outbreak.It’s at present serving its full breakfast menu solely till 10:30am, as a substitute of the same old noon. “Like many retailers, we’re rigorously managing provide of eggs as a result of present trade challenges,” McDonald’s Australia mentioned in an announcement despatched to the BBC.”We’re persevering with to work intently with our community of Aussie farmers, producers, and suppliers, because the trade comes collectively to handle this problem.”A number of strains of chicken flu have been detected in 11 poultry services throughout southeast Australia prior to now two months.Authorities have mentioned they’ve the state of affairs underneath management.”Customers can count on to see some empty cabinets within the short-term, nonetheless, provides are being re-directed to areas with brief provide,” the Australian authorities mentioned.”Customers ought to chorus from buying extra eggs than required.”Hen flu has affected fewer than 10% of Australia’s egg laying hens however, some companies have imposed limits on what number of eggs folks should purchase.The outbreaks have led to the culling of about 1.5m chickens in Australia.To this point, not one of the strains detected have been the H5N1 variant of chicken flu.H5N1 has unfold by means of chicken and mammal populations globally, infecting billions of animals and a small variety of people.