If egg prices and availability have you thinking of raising your own backyard chickens, know there is a mix of romanticism and realism with that idea.

Despite opportunity for strong margins in the U.S. poultry and egg industry, producers are uneasy as they face what may be ...

While BLS has not yet published January prices, wholesale (or spot) egg values continued to surge through January with ...

Egg prices in the U.S. have surged due to ongoing bird flu outbreaks, which have led to the culling of over 21 million egg-laying birds across multiple states.

As the steward of four sweet but dimwitted birds who comprise the egg factory in my backyard, it’s not as cheap as you’d ...

The avian flu has impacted over 157 million poultry, including egg-laying hens, leading to a decrease ... “It’s the most effective tool that we have to prevent it.” Hahnel said that her ...

Yoder says with chickens and the eggs, sometimes there's enough, and other times there are too many. Chickens lay the most eggs in the ... can affect chickens' laying. Older birds go through ...

The spike in egg prices last month underscores the devastating impact of avian flu, which killed more than 40 million ...

On the flip side, egg-laying chickens stick around for years, continuing to lay eggs throughout most of their lives. This means they’re exposed to bird flu for much longer, making them more at risk.

More than 21 million egg-laying hens have been "depopulated" this year ... from its storeroom in the middle of the night. Berry said most of his chicken buyers are new to the world of egg production.

The vast majority of those were egg-laying chickens, the Associated Press reported. Most of those birds weren't actually sick from the bird flu, but were within a population that had been infected.