Feed stores are selling out of baby chickens. But there are downsides to having a backyard flock, such as cost and potential ...

Budget-conscious Long Islanders are flocking to the pet supply retailer’s location in Commack, New York, which has started ...

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The hens that produce these eggs are called Easter Eggers. They naturally produce eggs in various colours and tones. This is ...

If a hen inherits a blue gene and a brown gene, she lays green eggs. Perhaps Dr. Seuss was on to something with his green ...

Have you ever wondered why chicken eggs come in different colors? According to Texas A&M AgriLife Extension, the color of a hen’s earlobes can help determine the color of its eggs.

The forum comes in the wake of the Township Council approving an ordinance – at the behest of Potosnak – that allows for the raising of chickens in residential zones. Prior to the new ordinance, ...

While it’s a common misconception to believe that brown eggs are somehow more “natural” than white, eggshells are determined ...

As autumn set in last year, I thought Esmerelda, at age seven, had entered a well-merited retirement. For nearly six years ...

In return, they laid more eggs than I could eat. In summer when insects were their chief diet—ants being plentiful, and ...

Childhood visits to my grandparent’s farm served to foreshadow raising chickens of my own. Tossing seed corn, herding a mean rooster to the coop, and reaching under a hen to gather a warm egg were ...

Nature has its own way of coloring eggs, and it doesn’t require boiling water, food coloring or paintbrushes. Let’s ...