With egg prices remaining high, farmers have tapped into artificial intelligence and other technologies to improve the health and welfare of hens so they can lay more eggs.

As she continued peeling, she realized it was no ordinary egg—it was one of the hatching eggs that had fallen from under the hen. "I didn't know what to do," she said in the caption of the video, ...

The threat of bird flu has already meant that more than 166 million egg-laying hens have been culled since the outbreak began, in 2022. As a result, the price of eggs is predicted to climb 41 ...

Vaccines could be a key means of suppressing bird flu and avoiding the slaughter of millions of chickens, which is blamed for soaring egg prices.

This pigment is called protoporphyrin. Hens with white earlobes usually lay white eggs, and hens with red or brown earlobes typically lay brown eggs. Here are some breeds that typically lay white ...

Hens would lay eggs for 70 weeks before being sold and replaced, the proposals state. The bird housing areas include rows of tiered perches, which are situated over manure belts, with automated ...

Egg prices have seen a dramatic increase due to a combination of inflation, supply chain issues, and a shortage of laying hens. The highly pathogenic avian influenza (HPAI) outbreak has resulted in ...

However, the dominating factor of decreased egg supply is a decreased population of hens who lay the eggs. The culprit? Highly pathogenic avian influenza (HPAI) and in more particular, H5N1.

The increase is due to the limited number of hens laying eggs right now. There are fewer hens because of federal bird flu control measures. They require farmers to kill their chickens if they ...