Chickens kept in litter-based housing systems, including free-range chickens, are more prone to disease than chickens kept in cages, according to a new study. Chickens kept in litter-based housing ...

Researchers have collected data on feed ... chickens get to move around freely. An industry consortium called the Coalition for a Sustainable Egg Supply funded this study, mainly because chicken ...

Frame said raising chickens at home to produce eggs and meat is tied to a considerable economic investment. Proper housing ...

“There is not a whole lot of cushion around the keel bone” of most hens of those breeds, he said, since they are bred so that their “feed energy goes to egg production” and not for ...

There is no evidence that chicken feed is being sabotaged or impacting ... it’s often the first physiological system to be turned off if there's environmental stress, said Blatchford, the ...

Poultry litter consists of manure, feathers, spilled feed and bedding material that accumulate on the floors of the buildings that house chickens and turkeys. It can contain disease-causing ...

After years of having Gerber farms eggs coming from elsewhere, egg production on a greater scale has been brought back to the ...

Arsenic, chicken feed and the FDA are three terms not normally seen together in health articles. Here’s how such an alignment can happen… An arsenic-containing drug used in chicken feed will ...

WILLMAR – A new system for blending and loading poultry feed that was implemented late last year at the Farm Service Elevator in Willmar has already reduced time and increased nutrition options.

Midwest Chicken Farmers Struggle to Feed Flocks After Sudden Closure of Processor Dozens of farmers in Iowa, Minnesota and Wisconsin are scrambling to feed their flocks after a struggling organic ...