As soon as I planned my move from New York City to Portland, Oregon, I knew a flock was in my future. I bought my first chickens online in 2018. The “ladies,” as I’d come to call them, hatched at a ...

Italy is getting ready to end a long-standing routine in its egg industry: the killing of newborn male chicks. For decades, hatcheries have sorted chicks within hours of hatching, and millions of ...

What is cute and fuzzy, and doesn't have feathers but is flying out of farm stores at warp speed anyway? If you guessed "baby chicks," you would be right. Phones have been ringing off the hooks at ...

A Delaware animal shelter is working to find new homes for thousands of chicks that were left abandoned in a U.S. Postal Service truck for three days. Delaware's Department of Agriculture said it ...

Eggs and poultry provide important sources of protein globally, driving a major industry with large economic impacts. Challenges to hatchery operations include embryo mortality, fertility, sex ...

The bird flu put a huge dent in the nation's egg supply, leading to record-high prices earlier this year. Prices are starting to cool but new outbreaks could push prices up again. Soaring egg prices ...

A central Delaware animal shelter has spent the past two weeks rehabilitating and finding homes for over 8,000 chicks that were stranded in a U.S. Postal Service truck for 3 ½ days. The birds were ...