Is having backyard chickens the solution to the current egg crisis? Here’s what five hen owners want you to know.

Bird flu does not present a food safety risk. The Board of Animal Health says cooked poultry and eggs and pasteurized dairy ...

The State Board of Animal Health announced Monday it has quarantined more than 918,000 chickens at a commercial egg laying operation in Jay County, which is located between Fort Wayne and Muncie ...

Raising chickens ... eggs every other day, Yoder said. Chicks do not start laying eggs until they are about 6 months old. The first six months of raising chicks, the environment is important to ...

While high egg prices may make raising chickens seem appealing, the costs and effort involved may outweigh the benefits for many. Different chicken breeds lay various colored eggs, offering a ...

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.

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.

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 ...

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

Both were in Elbert County. The birds affected were broilers, which are not egg-laying chickens, and 205,000 of the 157 million affected birds have ben in Georgia. Matthew Agvent, the ...

Millions of egg-laying hens have been lost due to the bird flu, causing egg production to slow and prices to skyrocket.

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 ...