The risk of transmission to humans remains low, but it can happen. As the popularity of keeping backyard and urban chicken flocks grows, health and agriculture experts warn that bird flu can pose a risk to your feathered friends — and by extension, a small risk to you, as well.

The bird flu outbreak is causing the price of eggs to soar, with prices at a 45-year high. The founder of the second largest egg producer in the U.S., John Rust, of Rose Acre Farms joins The Weekend to discuss.