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

The egg’s color stems from the absence of pigments during formation in the hen’s oviduct. Chickens like the Rhode Island Red and Plymouth Rock are famed for their brown eggs. The depth of ...

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