CHICAGO, April 30 (Reuters) - Some U.S. farmers who once raised chickens for Tyson Foods to slaughter are shifting to sell eggs instead after the meatpacker closed six plants, a move that left local ...

A 160-acre chicken farm known for hosting community movie nights and Easter egg hunts in Wolfforth will shut down operations by the end of 2024. Alcove Farms, 7919 4th St., began in 2014 after ...

A few months ago, I had a conversation with a fellow backyard chicken raiser about the price of farm fresh eggs. They demanded that everyone in our area sold for $4 a dozen, because that’s what they ...

Record-high egg prices have more consumers considering backyard chickens, but farm rescues say they are expensive and hard to care for.

Thanks to the pandemic, there's been an uptick in the popularity of backyard chickens, even in urban areas. But the pandemic ...

INDIO, Calif. (KESQ) - Despite a steady drop in wholesale egg prices, many California shoppers say they're still paying high prices at the store. In the Coachella Valley, an increasing number of ...

DAVIE - As egg prices surge and shortages persist due to the bird flu ravaging poultry flocks, some South Florida residents are turning to backyard chickens as an alternative. But before setting up a ...

Newly hatched chicks are seen after being sorted in a machine that provides a new technique to enable hatcheries to peek into millions of fertilized eggs and spot male embryos, then grind them up for ...

It's not worth the cost of eggs — cage-free chicken farming, that is. On March 21, Gov. Katie Hobbs ordered a delay in the enforcement of cage-free chicken farming in Arizona in the hopes of lowering ...

PHOENIX – A prominent Arizona egg farmer says vaccinating chickens from the bird flu would lower prices, but the federal government won’t allow it. “What’s frustrating is, we know that that’s the ...