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

Five chickens live in artist Alicia Rheal's backyard in Madison, Wis., and when they age out of laying eggs, they may become chicken dinner. "We get egg-layers and after a couple of years we put the ...

Two trials were conducted to study the effect of feeding barley silage on the behaviour and performance of beak-trimmed laying hens. In each trial, 20 hens and 2 roosters were housed in each of eight ...

Don't be scared eggless by news about inhumane practices at corporate chicken farms. The nation may be seeing a quiet revolution of farmers offering alternatives to "factory eggs." Their hens ...

And the best ones to eat are medium-sized ones, according to farmers who say producing large eggs is cruel to hens. Tom Vesey, chairman of the British Free Range Egg Producers' Association, has ...