This edition of the Happy Homestead talks about raising your own laying hens from hatching all the way up to full grown hens ...

The hen pads the nest with down she plucks from her breast, laying one egg a day and 6-16 eggs total. But the nest may contain up to 40 eggs “due to a unique behavior called compound nesting ...

OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — Bird flu is forcing farmers to slaughter millions of chickens a month, pushing U.S. egg prices to more than double their cost in the summer of 2023. And it appears there may ...

“The nutritional content of eggs — including fat-soluble vitamins A, D, E, and K — depends more on the hen’s diet, health, breed, age, and environment than on yolk color,” Che shared.