In recent years, there’s been a growing trend toward sustainability and self-sufficiency, with more and more families ...

Each year more than seven billion fluffy little yellow chicks worldwide are tossed into a grinder or gassed to death less than 24 hours after hatching because they are of no use to egg producers. Now, ...

More and more people are choosing to keep their own chickens, bypassing the fluctuating cost of eggs and ensuring that the quality of their poultry and eggs are the standards they want them to be.

Two siblings hatched 12 chicks from a box of quail eggs from their local Marks & Spencer shop. Ray Moorhead, seven, and his sister Pearl, four, decided to experiment with a box of 24 by putting the ...