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Is it more cost effective to raise your own egg-laying chickens?
The amount of eggs a family can get from their backyard flock will depend on what kind of chicken they choose. One of the most popular chickens to get is the ISA Brown. “They lay really good ...
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As egg prices climb, more Oregonians take a crack at raising backyard chickens
Alejandro Figueroa / OPB While this is the time of the year when local hatcheries and farm supply stores begin taking orders for chicks, mostly from people looking to raise them as egg-laying ...
Are socially distanced chickens laying more affordable eggs?
Pasture-raised hens aren’t any more immune to bird flu, and their premium eggs aren’t getting cheaper. But these prices have ...
The Times of Northwest Indiana5d
Additional 2.6 million egg-laying chickens quarantined in Indiana for bird flu
The Indiana Board of Animal Health has quarantined another 2.6 million chickens at two commercial egg-laying operations in northeast Indiana's Jay County. The move follows Monday's quarantine of ...
The Hill8d
In protecting chickens, we protect ourselves from future bird flu outbreaks
At the end of 2022, the U.S. had 308 million commercial egg-laying hens. According to World Animal Protection, more than 95 percent of these hens live in factory farming conditions. Chickens ...