For backyard chickens, the number 18 means the same thing. Eighteen weeks is the age when most egg-laying breeds are considered adults. Most excitingly, it’s the time when many breeds will lay their ...

Before there was the chicken and the egg, there was chicken food. And feeding chickens today comes with a high price tag and carbon footprint. Researchers at Australia’s University of New England are ...

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In Episode 150 of Mother Earth News and Friends, Dr. Patrick Biggs joins us to talk about keeping the layer hens in your flock well-fed and healthy. We’ll be learning about the nutrients in chicken ...

Social media users claim to have found a new culprit for sky-high egg prices: chicken feed. The theory gained steam on Facebook, TikTok and Twitter in recent weeks, with some users reporting that ...

Female poultry birds which are reared for egg laying are called layers. There are mainly two classifications of poultry birds, namely egg producers; that is, the laying birds or layers and meat ...

The commercial diet for chickens is comprised of different grains often concentrated in higher protein content for rapid growth. Experts contend an average chicken diet is composed of 42.8 percent ...

For the best experience, please enable JavaScript in your browser settings. Covid-19 has hit most farmers with a huge blow due to the closing of open-air markets ...