Poultry farming is one of the fast­est-growing agribusiness sectors in Nigeria, attracting both small-scale and large-scale investors. With increasing demand for eggs and chicken meat, favourable ...

Chickens can be a great addition to your home, filling various roles such as producing eggs, fertilising gardens and eating your food scraps, plus being a pet and ...

s the skies open up during this rainy season farmers must take several measures to ensure their poultry flocks remain in good ...

It’s a scene that keeps repeating itself, again and again, on poultry farms large and small across America.

The nutrition, zootechnical measures, environmental conditions, and welfare standards complied with the criteria for chicken fattening. The broilers were reared for 39 days in pens with a concrete ...

Those deaths have totaled over 166 million birds in the U.S. since 2022. Most birds killed are egg-laying chickens, and the death of so many hens is the main reason egg prices keep rising.

In the whole U.S., more than 14.6 million birds have been affected since January so far. Chicken flocks infected with strains of avian influenza are usually selectively slaughtered across the U.S ...

Musk’s comments were in response to a viral post blaming Biden for rising egg prices. Elon Musk ignited a fresh controversy on Thursday, claiming on X that President Joe Biden’s administration ...

A breakdown of the approximate costs associated with starting a flock of laying chickens. For O’Brien, her birds mean more than farm fresh eggs and chicks to sell. “I love my chickens.

Gov. Mike DeWine said the federal government needs to speed up bird flu research to contain the outbreak, which has cost Ohio nearly a third of its egg-laying hens. Darke County is the center of ...

But this was sporadic. Eggs are naturally seasonal, and around November, the chickens slowed and then stopped laying until roughly March, when the days got longer again. Then, after a few months ...

There was an insane slaughter of 150 million egg-laying chickens ordered by the Biden administration.” But, the killing of chickens infected with avian flu, or in stocks where it was present ...