The U.S. meat industry is striving to crack a conundrum: Why fewer eggs are hatching chicks. Over the first five months of the year, the percentage of eggs hatching broiler chickens, raised for their ...

Researchers have shown that probiotics can protect hatching chicks from bacterial diseases without destroying beneficial microorganisms. PROBING NEW SOLUTIONS — Danielle Graham, assistant professor of ...

In an effort to increase egg supplies ahead of the Easter holiday, the National Chicken Council has filed a petition with the Food and Drug Administration seeking regulatory changes to allow “surplus” ...

With bird flu shrinking the nation’s egg supply, the National Chicken Council is asking FDA to change its rules and let broiler producers send their surplus eggs for breaking. NCC submitted a petition ...

Getting producers to accept two expensive technologies at once is, in fact, a real chicken or egg dilemma. Chicken Run Currently, incubator farms provide newly-born chickens to broiler and layer farms ...