By the time officials arrived at the postal facility, 4,000 baby birds were already dead. The thousands of survivors — mostly ...

Hatcheries from around the country are reporting ... Compounding the situation, bird flu began sweeping through commercial chicken flocks early last year, pushing egg prices sharply higher.

A Lancaster County hatchery said it lost 17,000 chicks in a pair of shipping mishaps by the U.S. Postal Service in early May, ...

Many of us who keep backyard flocks are aware that industrial chicken breeds from commercial hatcheries aren’t the best option if we’re hoping to raise self-reliant birds. We prefer sturdier ...

Just 18 weeks after operations commenced, the hatchery delivered its first commercial batch of chicks—a milestone that set the pace for what has become an impressive production trajectory.

Herbert Woodbury, 4, and his dad, Todd Woodbury, spent some time holding a couple of the chickens in their breeding barn after egg collecting on Monday, Feb. 20, 2023, at Woodbury Hatchery near ...

Hatcheries from around the country are reporting ... Compounding the situation, avian flu began sweeping through commercial chicken flocks early last year, pushing egg prices sharply higher.