By managing light, nutrition, molt schedules, and other things like nutrition, housing, and health, commercial farms can help ...

Whether you’re a backyard chicken keeper or you purchase eggs from a grocery store, most families consume eggs every week, whether it’s in pancake batter, an omelet or hard-boiled eggs to decorate for ...

If you own backyard chickens, you might have already noticed a decrease in egg production as the fall season has begun, and the daylight hours have lessened. Hens require 12 to 14 hours of daylight to ...

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 ...

Consumers frustrated with high egg prices may either decide to give up their favorite breakfast food, cut out the baking or take the plunge into raising their own laying hens. But experts on raising ...

My improved Kienyeji are now 9 months of age and are laying eggs, my problem is that only about 30% are laying going by the number of eggs I am collecting. What could be the problem and what is the ...