Steep egg prices drive uptick in backyard chicken raising
Suppliers and customers are seeing an increase in chick sales as more people look for affordable and alternative eggs amid ...
Arizona Capitol Times5dOpinion
Which Came First, the Chicken or Egg Crisis?
What we are experiencing now is how arbitrary regulatory restrictions on access to these products can disrupt the resilience ...
WAMC Northeast Public Radio3d
Saratoga County residents tend to their chicken flocks as bird flu spreads and egg prices soar
Amid high egg prices and bird flu cases soaring across the country, Saratoga County residents are tending to their own flocks ...
The Nation Newspaper5d
Breeds of chickens and egg prices across the globe
The truth, however, is that the price of eggs has been rising across the globe for some time now. This has given rise to the ...
Industrial chicken farms are trashing Britain's rivers—and planning reforms could make things worse
Once voted the UK's favorite river, the River Wye flows from the Welsh mountains to the Severn estuary—150 miles through an ...
High Plains Journal2d
A good egg: Pasture-raised egg farms connect with consumers
Family farmers like the Pace family, have found success in partnering with companies like Vital Farms to produce ...
CNET on MSN1d
Easter Is Almost Here -- and Eggs Are Still Expensive. Here's Why
You might be re-considering dying eggs for Easter this year. We spoke with an economist to figure out why the prices of the refrigerator staple sky rocketed this year.
Eggs come from chickens. So why are eggs expensive and not chicken?
The short answer is that there are chickens for meat (broilers) and chickens for eggs (layers), and they’re not the same: They’re raised separately and have different lifespans. In fact, for the past ...
Can climate-resilient chickens help fight poverty?
An initiative in Zambia is showing that a profit-seeking company can help rural farmers battling extreme weather breed ...
Chicks take their time to lay eggs
Homeowners hatching a scheme to beat high egg prices by raising chicks in their backyard are in for a wait. Spring chicks will need until fall to reach maturity, according to Cambria poultry farmer ...