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When it comes to bird eggs, most people imagine the standard brown or white varieties. However, nature has a surprise in ...
Clutch size: 3 to 4 eggs. The spotless, bright blue-green eggs in the American robin’s mud-lined nest are a sure sign that spring has arrived in North America­—and sometimes they appear ...
Easter Egg. The First Colored Eggs Appeared Long Before Easter The dinosaur ancestors of birds laid blue, brown, and speckled eggs as far back as 150 million years ago.
A once-extinct bird has laid eggs in the wild for the first time in nearly 40 years. After returning to the wild in 2024, the endangered Sihek bird is now laying wild eggs in its new Hawaii home.
The first wild eggs of an endangered bird have been laid for the first time in almost four decades, and the Cincinnati Zoo & Botanical Garden helped to play a role!
Michigan lawmakers modified the Animal Industry Act in 2019, requiring shell eggs from chickens, ducks and other fowl, sold in the state to be from cage-free housing systems, starting Dec. 31, 2024.
U.S. egg prices increased again last month to reach a new record-high of $6.23 per dozen despite President Donald Trump’s predictions, a drop in wholesale prices and no egg farms having bird flu ...
U.S. inflation may have cooled last month but egg prices are still stubbornly high, and there’s no immediate prospect of relief thanks to bird flu and tariffs. Consumers paid a record $6.227 per ...
Since the current bird flu outbreak began, more than 168 million birds have been slaughtered, most of them egg-laying chickens. Any time a bird gets sick, the entire flock is killed to help keep ...
Egg prices hit $5.90 in February one month after setting a record at $4.95 per dozen, according to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics.. The farms that had fall outbreaks have been working to ...
Most of the brown eggs in the U.S. are produced by a type of chicken breed called Rhode Island Red or Plymouth Rock, while many of the white eggs are made by White Leghorn chickens, he says ...
U.S. egg prices increased again last month to reach a new record-high of $6.23 per dozen despite President Donald Trump’s predictions, a drop in wholesale prices and no egg farms having bird flu ...