STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. — This week marks the end of an era in our backyard — and in our food lives. After nearly two decades of ...

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Credit: Shutterstock Metformin, the common diabetes drug, enhances egg-laying in older hens by triggering liver genes that promote yolk production and reduce fat buildup — offering a major ...

What do chickens and women with polycystic ovary syndrome (PCOS) have in common? Quite a lot, it seems. A common diabetes drug – metformin – may bridge their reproductive challenges. Researchers at ...

At Penn State, researchers discovered that metformin, a drug usually prescribed for type 2 diabetes and polycystic ovary syndrome (PCOS) in humans, can actually help chickens lay more eggs.

UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. — What do chickens and people with a common reproductive disorder have in common? More than one might think — and a widely-used diabetes medication might just be the surprising ...

Injecting an oregano-based essential oil compound, known as carvacrol, into fertile eggs may positively influence a developing chick’s immune system, according to research from the University of ...

What do chickens and people with a common reproductive disorder have in common? More than one might think — and a widely-used diabetes medication might just be the surprising link. At Penn State, ...

By hatching chickens himself, Vellinger learned that because gravity drags the yolk to the bottom of the shell, eggs need to turned periodically. When his eighth-grade teacher asked if he wanted to ...

You’ll have to break some eggs to find out if the ones sold as fertile actually are. Crack one open and look for a perfectly round white spot on the yolk.

For instance, if you consume the same amount of calories in egg whites as in one whole egg (74 calories), you’d consume nearly 15 g of protein, compared to 6.2 g.

If you want to find fertile eggs that make good candidates for hatching, Fosnaught recommends seeking out “Fertile hatching eggs from a breeder flock (hens and roosters kept for the purpose of ...