For backyard chickens, the number 18 means the same thing. Eighteen weeks is the age when most egg-laying breeds are considered adults. Most excitingly, it’s the time when many breeds will lay their ...

The samples of dead poultry layers (birds meant for laying eggs and not consumption) collected from a poultry farm at Kanuru Agraharam of Peravali mandal in East Godavari district have tested positive ...

A poultry raiser in Central Luzon tends to his chickens in this file photo. The country’s chicken laying flock inventory as of July 1 rose by 6.4 percent to a record-level of 60.64 million birds ...

Organic poultry production has long had a challenge in getting feed rations right. Farmers adopting the system accept that bird performance will be lower but, in theory, birds reared under ...

You may wonder why yours birds lay small eggs while your neighbour's lay big ones. Understanding the factors that may affect the sizes of eggs produced may be helpful in maximising returns as ...

One of the consequences of climate change seems to be increasingly volatile weather systems accompanied by rapidly changing and frequently unseasonal temperatures. As November gave way to December at ...