Kristen Kemp, a yoga instructor and writer in New Jersey, has owned backyard chickens for more than a decade. “I just love ...

Meanwhile, the price of chicken meat has hardly budged, up less than 1 percent from a year ago. Here’s why egg-laying chickens have been more affected and where prices could go from here.

For most hens, laying an egg is a given. But for one little chicken named Black Beauty, laying an egg proved to be a miracle.

Fewer hens equals fewer eggs equals higher prices. It’s simple supply and demand: When there’s less of a commodity to go ...

Egg prices are up more than 53% from last year The price of chicken meat has remained mostly stable Here's how the two industries are different That’s because chickens that are raised for meat, known ...

The Indiana Board of Animal Health has quarantined another 2.6 million chickens at two commercial egg-laying operations in northeast Indiana's Jay County. The move follows Monday's quarantine of ...

That’s because chickens raised for meat, known as “broilers,” haven’t been hit nearly as hard as egg-laying hens, and there’s little overlap between the two. “These are really two ...

His hens are still young and need a few more weeks to start laying eggs. Some cities and towns in Texas allow people to raise chickens at home if they follow certain health norms. According to the ...

Small business owners that rely on eggs for their products are facing sticker shock because the usually reliable staple is in ...

More than 2.5 million egg-laying birds are now under quarantine in Indiana. The state board of animal health says the flocks are at unnamed farms in Jay County.