W hen you think about hens and their daily routine, egg laying might be the first thing that comes to mind. It’s a practice ...

If you are not getting that many eggs each day, then one or more of your hens are not laying very well or not laying any eggs ...

A LUCKY chicken farmer was left shell-shocked after his hen laid a super-rare round egg. Alex Gingell, 53, made the one-in-a-billion discovery during a daily sweep of his pen. He went to check up ...

When eggs were scarce in 2020 during the COVID pandemic, many turned to raising their own chickens, something a homesteading ...

The future for egg-laying hens raised organically is also promising. The USDA has proposed changing its egg-laying hen standards for the National Organic Program (see page 2); a former emphasis on ...

Approximately 305 million egg-laying hens live in the United States at any given time. Between 90 and 95 percent of these birds are packed into tiny, barren wire cages that are stacked in rows, one on ...