You'll be shocked how many eggs they produce!

If you're in a lot of farming Facebook groups, odds are you've seen the posts from backyard chicken owners talking about how their hens stopped laying eggs and asking what to do about it. From about ...

In Episode 153 of Mother Earth News and Friends, we’re asking the big questions about chicken eggs: How many eggs does a chicken lay a day? What factors affect egg yield? And why do chickens stop ...

Shannin Rettig enjoys raising all types of chickens. She especially loves seeing the different-colored eggs they produce. Along with the standard white and brown, her heritage birds lay dark brown-, ...

The eggs laid by a group of “pampered” hens in the U.K. contain something special in their whites. After researchers from the University of Edinburgh spliced a human gene into the chickens’ DNA, the ...

Ordinarily, when scientists want to produce proteins for use in medicine, they have to utilize techniques that are costly and complex. Recently, however, Scottish researchers have created ...

This woman found an “egg-cellent” discovery from one of her nine pet chickens over the weekend. Annabel Mulcahy, who lives in Brize Norton, England, noticed that her chicken had laid an egg shaped ...

Poppy is one stubborn chicken!

Chickens are essentially little protein factories, producing a relatively large clump of pure protein in each egg they lay. Proteins are also the basis for many medicines, but synthesizing proteins ...