A woman who recently began keeping chickens was left in shock when she saw one of her hens had laid an egg almost twice the usual size. When she cracked it open, she was astounded to find a second, ...

More and more people are choosing to keep their own chickens, bypassing the fluctuating cost of eggs and ensuring that the quality of their poultry and eggs are the standards they want them to be.

Researchers have developed a method for culturing fertilized chick eggs without their shells. The eggs were placed in an artificial culture vessel made of transparent film, allowing for real-time ...

A scan of a California condor (Gymnogyps californianus) egg has revealed a rarely seen embryonic world. The chick is the 250th condor hatched at a facility helping to bring back the threatened birds ...