While scrolling through Instagram recently, I stumbled upon this cool video that Lauren Ambrose posted showing what different breeds of chickens look like as babies and adults. Lauren is a homesteader ...

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Most years, Franchesca Duval, who operates Alchemist Farms in Sebastopol, sees a spring rush for her newly hatched chicks, especially around Easter time. But not this year. “What I'm seeing is people ...

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Newly hatched chicks are seen after being sorted in a machine that provides a new technique to enable hatcheries to peek into millions of fertilized eggs and spot male embryos, then grind them up for ...

WILTON, Iowa (AP) — Every year the U.S. egg industry kills about 350 million male chicks because, while the fuzzy little animals are incredibly cute, they will never lay eggs, so have little monetary ...