With egg shortages expected to last several years, demand for backyard chickens is soaring. Here's what you need to know ...

Chickens typically start laying at six to seven months old. How many eggs depends on the breed. A Longhorn may lay one a day. A Rhode Island Red may lay one every one or two days. Shorter daylight ...

Next week should be the big egg week, the week the chickens work overtime. But if I am to believe all the bird-flu news, these haggard hens have already been on time and a half – the struggling ...

These young Rhode Island Red chicks will soon find new homes ... monitor for some diseases that can be passed through the egg from the hen to chicks. Hatcheries may also vaccinate against Marek's ...

Chickens typically start laying at six to seven months old. How many eggs depends on the breed. A Longhorn may lay one a day. A Rhode Island Red may lay one every one or two days. Shorter daylight ...

Backyard chickens might not crack high egg prices, but these owners say they ... said Sarah Schumann, a Rhode Island fisherman and director of the Fishery Friendly Climate Action Campaign ...

“We actually have two different types of chickens here,” Medina said. “We have Rhode Island Reds and they actually produce these brown eggs that we have, and we have Leghorns, and they ...

White leghorn chickens lay white-shelled eggs, and breeds like Plymouth Rocks and Rhode Island Reds lay brown-shelled eggs. The shells are brown because a pigment called protoporphyrin is deposited ...

The Verde Valley Green Business Boot Camp (VVGBBC) is conducted three times a year, with workshops starting in January, May and October. Since 2003, the nonprofit Local First Arizona has worked to ...

Langwater Farm, just 30 minutes from the Rhode Island border, thrives on 80 acres of high quality vegetables, herbs, fruits ...

The state has designated more animals, besides deer, that people can now legally pick up from the side of the road – but ...