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 ...

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 ...

With the price of eggs skyrocketing, some shoppers are considering keeping their own backyard laying hens, but experts say there are drawbacks that may make that chicken coop more expensive than ...

The avian flu has impacted over 157 million poultry, including egg-laying hens, leading to a decrease in egg production. Some consumers are turning to local farms or considering raising their own ...

All 80 sites on Long Island, New York City and Westchester County were cleaned and disinfected, according to state officials.

Billy Underhill, the 62-year-old owner of a construction company and longtime chicken raiser, has bought two more of the clucking creatures.

That cost could be from a few hundred to several thousands of dollars. Adult egg-laying chickens can be as much as $60. Food for the hens is as inexpensive as a $20 bag of chicken feed or as ...

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 ...

Townline Hatchery has chicks available for sale online, ranging from meat birds, turkeys and egg-laying hens. They also provide baby chicks to retail stores, like Family Farm and Home. The ones in ...

A weekly report from the Agricultural Marketing Service highlights the impact of ongoing bird flu outbreaks by showing the losses of chickens that ... losses of egg-laying breeds across eight ...

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.

After you’ve confirmed that you can legally keep chickens in your backyard, you can decide whether you want to buy laying hens or raise chicks. I personally vote for the latter, because I think baby ...