For backyard chickens, the number 18 means the same thing. Eighteen weeks is the age when most egg-laying breeds are considered adults. Most excitingly, it’s the time when many breeds will lay their ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. With the cost of a dozen eggs nearly double from what it was last summer, some folks may be thinking about raising chickens to ...

You may wonder why yours birds lay small eggs while your neighbour's lay big ones. Understanding the factors that may affect the sizes of eggs produced may be helpful in maximising returns as ...

Agronomist Reginaldo Haslett-Marroquin wants to transform the food system from the ground up by introducing poultry-powered, planet-cooling, regenerative agriculture. Ashoka’s Simon Stumpf caught up ...

Mrs Kasendi Mutinda collects eggs at her chicken farm in Ngengeka village, Kitui county. The farmer rears over 500 layers which gives her 12 crates of eggs per day. She says demand for eggs is steady ...

Joseph Chituyi and his wife Elizabeth Akwabi attending to their chicken at their farm at Ematsayi village in Lurambi. [Benjamin Sakwa/Standard] From ultra-modern chicken house to quality blankets for ...

Three of Jim and Nancy Patterson’s grandchildren — the seventh generation to be reared on the Chester Township-based Patterson Fruit Farm — are revisiting the family’s 1879 agricultural roots by ...

Ida DeFrancesco loves her “girls.” The Northford farmer also loves sharing them. “The girls are just a normal part of a farm, and getting to bring that to other folks and get to see them get so ...

My mornings started with a gentle clucking as the chickens roused themselves from the dusty loft of their coop stationed in my backyard. It was bizarre, but sweet. I never saw myself as a farm-girl ...