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

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

As consumers start to see egg prices drop and availability increase, a noticeable gap remains between brown and white eggs, with brown eggs costing $9.69 ... Read more The post Why do brown eggs cost ...

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 ...

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 ...

Bird flu would be much less of a threat if we spread chickens out across the country instead of concentrating them together ...

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

This year, the Library received five brown eggs and three white eggs, for a total of eight eggs. The brown eggs will hatch into either Black Star chicks, which are a cross between a Rhode Island Red ...

Methods: In this study, we examined the frequency of blood and meat spots in brown-shell and white-shell eggs, respectively, from Rhode Island Red and White Leghorn chickens at seven ages. Discussion: ...