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 ...

As egg prices skyrocket, you too may be considering if it would be cheaper going straight to the source and raising your own ...

Kristan Marchewka’s chickens gather for food. As egg prices rise many are looking to raise their own chickens, but experienced chicken farmers say it is ultimately an impractical and more costly ...

Two factors behind skyrocketing egg prices are bird flu impacts and a Colorado law requiring all commercially sold eggs in the state to be from cage-free producers. But there's much to consider if ...

TO SKYROCKET, AND THE DEMAND FOR EGG THAT’S NOT GOING DOWN AT ALL. WELL, THE BIRD FLU OUTBREAK HAS KILLED MILLIONS OF EGG LAYING HENS, REDUCING THE EGG SUPPLY ACROSS THE COUNTRY. YEAH. AND AS FAMILIES ...

Raising chickens for eggs can be rewarding, but — as I wrote previously — it requires a commitment of time and money. If you do it properly, you will never have a shortage of fresh eggs, year-round.

When the phone rings at Burns Feed Store in Gresham, nine out of 10 times, it’s someone asking about chicks, Shelley Burns-Giusto said. “This year specifically has been crazy,” she said. “Because, ...

WHITE BEAR LAKE, Minn. — Breakfast and baking keeps getting more expensive thanks to a key ingredient. The Agriculture Department predicts egg prices could rise another 20% this year. That might have ...

Chickens were never really on my radar when it came to buying a place out in the country. My eyes were set on a big garden plot, fruit trees and bushes in every corner of the yard, and lots of room ...

TELFORD, Tenn. (WJHL) – Local 4-H students have been hard at work raising chickens, and now those chickens are ready to be sold. If you have a coop, head out to the 4-H Tri-County Chicken Sale that is ...

The Worcester Planning Board sent a clear message to the city council this week — residents want to raise chickens. The planning board voted unanimously on April 9 to send a letter that urged the ...

If restaurant egg dish surcharges, eggless grocery store shelves and egg purchase restrictions have you thinking of raising your own backyard chickens, know there is a mix of romanticism and realism ...