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

CORVALLIS, Ore. – The chicks are back. For the sixth year, the world can watch chicken eggs hatch via the streaming video OSU Chickcam. The popular event launched Monday and documents baby chicks as ...

It's chicken hatching time. If you've never seen a chick crack out of its egg but always wanted to, look no further than the Oregon State University Extension Service Chicken Hatch Cam. You can watch ...

Technology invented at UC Davis and developed by Sensit Ventures Inc. could enable hatcheries for laying hens to sex eggs well before hatching by detecting volatile chemicals that cross the shell.

A chicken eggshell has a tricky job: It must protect a developing chick, but then ultimately let the chick break free. The secret to its success lies in its complex nanostructure — and how that ...

FALCON HEIGHTS, Minn. - Talk to Molly McConnell about poultry, and it is easy to forget she is just 15 years old. Standing outside the State Fair poultry barn, McConnell talked like the expert she is: ...

First-grader Anwen Swan goes to school with iguanas, a tortoise, leopard geckos, hissing cockroaches and a palm dove, so it was no surprise to her when baby chickens were added to the mix. What was ...