If you've noticed a price hike for eggs, chicken breast or chicken wings -- you're onto something. The hefty poultry prices are affecting everyone, from farmers to distributors, restaurant owners to you－the consumer.For local chicken farmers, the past few months have been a wake-up call."I think we're going to be losing money this year," said Diana Mejstrick, better known as Farmer Dee, the self-proclaimed ‘Chicken Woman of Glenwood.’ She owns Wild Rose Farms in Glenwood, Iowa. There is a surge in feed costs, with grain prices at an eight-year high."Last year when I'd get bagged feed... a 50-pound bag was like $8.50, now it's up over $10,” said Mejstrick. She said high prices and low supply affect everyone in the poultry pecking order. "When the cost goes up, the price of the meat has to also.”What starts at the farm trickles down to local businesses like Baked After Dark, where the pandemic and supply chain issues make business bittersweet."Just this past weekend, we resorted to raising prices, which we have been trying to avoid but it was just unavoidable at this point," said Owner Stacey Johnson, who runs the family-owned business alongside her daughter, Samantha. During the pandemic, she took on a second job to keep the business afloat.Eggs are especially expensive, and the bakery goes through 25 dozen each week. She said they’ve resorted to making daily trips to stores like Costco in order to purchase ingredients."We just haven't been making a profit the last couple of months so that's been hard but I do it for them," said Johnson, referencing her daughter and grandson. She hopes her fears of closing shop for good are never founded. "It's a dream, and it's not one I'm ready to give up on anytime soon."There's also been a cost to bear for Omaha caterer Chris Hawkinson. He took chicken wings and ribs off his regular menu."You can raise your prices to a certain point, but at a certain point it gets very difficult to get people to want to buy something if you have to raise almost double the price for what you charge for something," Hawkinson said. With those prices still on the rise, farmers and folks in the food industry know never to count their chickens before they hatch."I love my job but I'm never going to be a rich chicken farmer," Mejstrick said.