Raising chickens in your backyard can be an enjoyable and rewarding experience, especially if you love fresh eggs. However, ...

The fall and winter months are when hens naturally reduce their egg production, but chicken owners can use some tactics to ...

With the price of eggs soaring, more people are looking into keeping backyard chickens. It's a pastime that grew with the ...

Managing layer chicks for maximum performance is the main objective for all egg producers. One challenge to egg producers or pullet farmers is how to successfully manage flocks to profitable egg ...

Opinion articles provide independent perspectives on key community issues, separate from our newsroom reporting. Arlyn Kauffman was grinding feed for 20,000 layer hens when we pulled up to his farm ...

“Having HPAI on a farm is a nightmare that goes on and on,” Chad Gregory, president and chief executive officer of United Egg ...

Each day, hundreds of thousands of their eggs are trucked to storage facilities, where they are protected by guards and multimillion-dollar, government-funded security systems. But these eggs aren't ...

Arlyn Kauffman, whose hens produce eggs on his farm south of Osceola, Iowa. Robert Leonard Arlyn Kauffman was grinding feed for 20,000 layer hens when we pulled up to his farm south of Osceola, Iowa. ...