Ida Toivonen (30) is the manager of Säkylän Munakori, a farm in Finland with 140,000 DeKalb White laying hens in 4 identical ...

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The forum comes in the wake of the Township Council approving an ordinance – at the behest of Potosnak – that allows for the raising of chickens in residential zones. Prior to the new ordinance, ...

In the "best-case scenario," with no more bird losses ... the same impact on beef and dairy cattle supplies as it is on hen-laying birds, despite a variant of the bird flu being found in dairy ...

However, raising chickens and getting eggs isn’t as easy or speedy as people may think. For instance, it takes about six months for hens to start laying eggs. Some cities also require permits.

“But I do think there is enough groundswell of interest that it would really be nice if some staff could be assigned to really look at this issue of having chickens for the sole purpose of ...