In Episode 153 of Mother Earth News and Friends, we’re asking the big questions about chicken eggs: How many eggs does a chicken lay a day? What factors affect egg yield? And why do chickens stop ...

With the cost of a dozen eggs nearly double from what it was last summer, some folks may be thinking about raising chickens to harvest their own eggs. An area poultry farmer says it may sound good, ...

IDAHO FALLS, Idaho (KIFI) – A local chicken is producing eggs inside other eggs continuously on a family chicken coop in Idaho Falls. The Rosenkrance family got their first set of chickens back in May ...

The UN’s Food and Agriculture Organization estimated that in 1990, the world’s population of chickens was around 10.6 billion birds. For 2023, that number has grown to some 34.4 billion animals. And ...

Shannin Rettig enjoys raising all types of chickens. She especially loves seeing the different-colored eggs they produce. Along with the standard white and brown, her heritage birds lay dark brown-, ...

Recently, Mrs. Jackson’s second-grade class at Two Mile Prairie Elementary asked why chickens lay different colored eggs. These students were lucky enough to have their own school chicken coop and ...

Why did my chickens stop laying eggs? This article answers your frustrations and provides solutions. Did you go out to your coop this morning only to find no eggs? Frustrating, isn’t it? It also makes ...

Researchers in Japan genetically engineered chickens to produce eggs that contain drugs capable of fighting diseases. The work may eventually reduce the cost of treatment for some illnesses.

In breakthrough research, a team of scientists from University of Edinburgh’s Roslin Institute, have genetically modified chicken to lay eggs that contain medications for arthritis and some cancers.

Medications of the future may be made to order–short order from the griddle, that is. Scientists have genetically engineered chickens so that they produce foreign proteins in eggs. This is an ...