The Chattanooga city council is considering an ordinance that would allow people to keep chickens on their property within ...

Hens who are bred to be egg-laying hens lay an egg nearly every day, averaging out to about six eggs per week. This equates to up to 300 eggs per year. This applies to hens on factory farms , in ...

A Victorian poultry farmer details the emotional toll of an avian influenza outbreak on his properties. The business is ...

How to get omega-enriched eggs. All it takes to get omega-enriched eggs is supplementing your chickens' diet. There are specific mixes like Grubbly Farm’s Omega topper to do so: They include ...

A new Urban Chicken Ordinance under consideration by the City Council would allow up to eight laying hens on a single-family lot.

Fewer than 150 commercial egg farms with flocks of at least 75,000 now house over 95% of egg-laying hens, the United Egg Producers trade group estimates. Among large operators, ...

Eight million hens are kept in small cages - up to 14 per square metre - and can't do the things that come naturally such as spread their wings, walk freely, dust bathe, forage or lay their egg in ...

Most birds killed are egg-laying chickens, and the death of so many hens is the main reason egg prices keep rising. The average price per dozen has hit $5.90, and in some parts of the country, it ...

As of last week, the virus had affected over 157 million birds since January 2022, more specifically, over 122 million egg-laying hens according to data from the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s ...

20K egg-laying hens killed in barn fire, egg prices could go up by: Derek Lytle. ... Target is kicking off Memorial Day weekend early with a patio furniture sale that’s too good to miss.

Nationwide, a dozen eggs sold for $4.95 on average in January, up from $2.52 a year earlier, as avian influenza has wiped out poultry flocks and slammed into domestic egg supplies. Through it all ...