With higher prices for feed, labor and gas, production costs have risen ... flu — and facility fires across 12 states led to the loss of nearly 40 million egg-laying hens. With that loss, farmers were ...

As many people are painfully aware, egg prices in the United States have gone through the roof this year. This, despite ...

The first stage is breeding and rearing chicks into egg-laying hens, which requires feeding, healthcare and housing, he said. Layer-hen maintenance is the next stage, with mature hens requiring ...

A check of local feed stores showed chicks are flying off ... it’s still going to be four-and-a-half to six months before it starts laying eggs.” Dykes has run into the same thing when people ...

Most were egg-laying chickens. Since the start of the ... “You’re investing all that feeding time,” he said. “All that growing time. And then all the challenges that come with it.” ...

Some 30 million egg layers have been wiped out just since January ... Inflation in the costs of feed and fuel and labor have contributed to rising egg prices, and farmers have been investing ...

Llanos has a small farm 30 minutes outside of Danbury with a garden and 200 egg-laying hens. Eggs, vegetables, and herbs from ...

With the price of eggs surging in the U.S., Utah Hockey Club players have turned to Mikhail Sergachev to provide.

The company pays for farmers’ birds and feed, and it offers a set price for ... with flocks of at least 75,000 now house over 95% of egg-laying hens, the United Egg Producers trade group estimates.