Individual females are laying their eggs earlier in the season to cope with warmer conditions, researchers report in the February Proceedings of the Royal Society B. Scientists have long known ...

In response, some have created a new shortage: Now it’s not just eggs that are hard to come by, but also the chicks that will someday lay those eggs. Farm stores and hatcheries are selling out ...

Two eggs are in the peregrine falcon nest atop the County-City Building in South Bend and are expected to hatch in the next month. One of the three eggs in the bald eagles nest at St. Patrick’s ...

I’ve heard that a single ostrich egg is big enough to make an omelette for a whole family. —Anonymous, N.Y.C. Eight years ago ...

Does the U.S. administration have egg on their faces? Well, probably not literally, since they likely can't afford to waste a mouthful these days. But amid an outbreak of bird flu in laying hens that ...

Replacing culled hens and allowing them to reach egg-laying maturity is a time-consuming process, taking 4-5 months. Even after they start laying, egg production is low at first and gradually ...

Five-month-old hen Waffles died from egg-laying complications after she was rushed to an Upper East Side vet from PS 107’s “homestead” with a teacher forking over $2,100 out of her own ...

largely due to the ongoing avian flu outbreak impacting egg-laying chicken populations. Related Articles Streamlined Neapolitan meatballs are made with panko breadcrumbs ‘Fricos’ are tasty ...

This spike in prices has largely been a result of the spread of bird flu, which has caused major losses among the egg-laying stock in the U.S. H5N1, the predominant outbreak strain of the highly ...

the price for a dozen eggs, up 60 percent in a year. But why? Typically, some 300 million American hens lay some 90 billion American eggs every year. Seems like enough to go around. So why would ...

Egg-laying hens have been hit particularly hard, and egg prices have soared as a result: In January, the average price of a dozen large, grade-A eggs was $4.95, a record high according to the U.S ...