Industrial-scale poultry farms are descending on a tiny South Carolina community. Neighbors worry about odor and threats to water quality and land values.

Bringing new hens into your flock can be an exciting venture, but it’s important to exercise caution, especially if the birds ...

Sy Montgomery offers a chicken's-eye view of how sensitive chickens are and how they can recognize 100 other chickens, ...

Once they start laying, or at 20 weeks (this usually coincides) they graduate to the layer stage. Chickens generally stay in that phase for three years, and while production will begin to drop off ...

Hens are primarily known for their ability to lay eggs, with many laying one egg almost daily, depending on the breed and environmental conditions. Apart from egg-laying, hens are also raised for ...

Once your chickens start laying (and this should be happening about now if you got spring chickens), here are the things you ...

MADISON – Nearly 200,000 chickens raised in Wisconsin for meat were given away by farms after a Minnesota meat company went bankrupt and failed to pay for transport to processing companies and ...

The presence of highly pathogenic avian influenza (HPAI) has been confirmed in a commercial laying hen flock in Cache County, Utah. The positive detection was reported by the Utah Department of ...

The henitentiary at HMP Edinburgh, as the hen set-up is affectionately known, was created in 2014, the brainchild of a poultry-keeping prison officer. His hen keeping hobby began when his wife ...

Joyce Hens Green, who helped blaze a trail for women in the law while serving as a Washington attorney and federal judge, presiding over high-profile cases involving the BCCI bank fraud scandal ...

Essentially, the company was said to be putting pressure on staff to resign voluntarily, to avoid having to formally lay them off. Elsewhere in Nintendo news, yesterday the company announced ...