Chicks are shipped in cardboard boxes designed to keep them warm. Hatching eggs in an incubator or under a hen is an exciting project, and shopping for chicks or other baby poultry at a farm store is ...

Meyer Hatchery pioneered the backyard poultry industry by being the first to offer small minimum orders, a 48-hour live and well-bird guarantee, a 100% gender accuracy guarantee, breed stamping of its ...

For my business, there is no future without this machine… in a few years you won’t find anyone doing manual sexing anymore.” ...

More people are considering raising their own chickens and some are turning to a Mt. Healthy Hatcheries to do that. Rob O’Hara is the president of the family-owned business started by his grandfather ...

SALISBURY, MD. — As part of long-term efforts to reduce antibiotic use in its poultry production, Perdue Foods announced it has removed all antibiotics from its chicken hatcheries. The company said it ...

Everyone knows a puppy isn't for Christmas, it's for life. People are now also realizing a chicken isn't just for a cost-of-living crisis. The driving factor selling out hatcheries across the states ...

Tyson Foods has announced that, as of Oct. 1, it no longer uses antibiotics in its 35 chicken hatcheries. “Since the antibiotic typically used in hatcheries is important to human health, this is a ...

Seven years working in the meat industry turned Andre Menezes off from eating animals — most of the time. During his time working for a poultry exporter in Singapore, Menezes remembers standing in a ...

Crops still come first, but Woodbury Hatchery at Wyndmere, North Dakota, has grown and now has customers in Iowa, Minnesota, Nebraska, North Dakota and South Dakota, mostly supplying backyard flocks.