Chicks are shipped in cardboard boxes designed to keep them warm. Hatching eggs in an incubator or under a hen is an exciting project, and shopping for chicks or other baby poultry at a farm store is ...

Eggs may look simple from the outside, but each one can hold valuable information about life, health and future production.

SALISBURY, MD. — As part of long-term efforts to reduce antibiotic use in its poultry production, Perdue Foods announced it has removed all antibiotics from its chicken hatcheries. The company said it ...

Meyer Hatchery pioneered the backyard poultry industry by being the first to offer small minimum orders, a 48-hour live and well-bird guarantee, a 100% gender accuracy guarantee, breed stamping of its ...

Tyson Foods has announced that, as of Oct. 1, it no longer uses antibiotics in its 35 chicken hatcheries. “Since the antibiotic typically used in hatcheries is important to human health, this is a ...

CLARK − As the weather gets warmer and many waterfowl, or wild birds, start to migrate back to colder areas, they bring the possibility of spreading a highly contagious and dangerous flu virus. Highly ...

CHICAGO (WLS) -- Perdue Foods has removed all antibiotics from its chicken hatcheries. But shoppers could pay the price at the check-out line. The company said it has not used antibiotics for growth ...

It looks like toilet paper and disinfectant wipes aren’t the only things people hoarded during this pandemic. The nation’s biggest chicken hatcheries are reporting they are currently sold out of baby ...

What is cute and fuzzy, and doesn't have feathers but is flying out of farm stores at warp speed anyway? If you guessed "baby chicks," you would be right. Phones have been ringing off the hooks at ...

Seven years working in the meat industry turned Andre Menezes off from eating animals — most of the time. During his time working for a poultry exporter in Singapore, Menezes remembers standing in a ...