Favacuana is a crossbreed between a couple of great chicken breeds: the Favorelle (which makes brown eggs) and the Ameraucana (which makes blue eggs) Laying between 220-250 gorgeous sage-green ...

Ameraucana chickens have muffs and beards, along with relatively short, curved tails. They produce desirable blue eggs similar to the Araucana, but without the risk of that breed’s lethal genes.

As concerns over avian influenza have grown after a Louisiana man died from it earlier this week, there have been calls to ...

Each year, U.S. companies will cull about 350 million male chicks shortly after they hatch, needing only the females to lay the nation’s 94 billion table eggs. The unwanted males are sent into ...

Sparked by lightning and driven by high winds, the so-called Gwen Fire scorched more than 30,000 acres, forced hundreds of ...

As this is my first column for The Eagle, I thought I would give you a brief synopsis of who I am and what I do.

When the Menzel family moved to a farmstead outside of Solon, they couldn't have guessed that their neighbor would one day ...

Animal control also caught chickens and a rooster. Members of Where the Love Is Animal Rescue brought food and stood by neighbors as they watched the officers work into the evening. No one ...

A 2018 lawsuit against the Fish and Game Department’s Powder Mill Hatchery in New Durham led to a groundbreaking ceremony in New Hampton Friday on what may become the most advanced, least ...

More than 100,000 birds -- nearly all of them chickens -- have been killed at a Cullman County commercial broiler farm and a backyard flock in Pickens County after highly pathogenic avian ...

This year the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, stated that approximately 33 million commercial egg-laying chickens were killed because of the disease. There are outbreaks in 49 states.