The internet is rife with photographs of eggs from chickens and other poultry that have black shells. Are they a trick of the imagination? Poor photographic lighting? Or true poultry eggs with inky shells? If so, which poultry breed...
Maybe you already keep chickens or other poultry and are considering adding ducks. Or maybe you’re thinking of starting with ducks as your first foray into the world of poultry. To help you decide whether or not duck keeping...
The highly lethal form of avian influenza circulating the globe since 2021 has killed tens of millions of birds, forced poultry farmers in the United States to slaughter entire flocks and prompted a brief but alarming spike in the...
Let’s say that you want to start a farm, and you’re going to use that farm to replace your current income. That’s a beautiful goal, I love it, but where do you start?
Whether you want to raise vegetables, beef,...
Automobile manufacturers change the look of their respective models to keep up with either trends, government mandates or new technologies. The changes are either well-received, such as those by Toyota, or the model tends to fade away quietly (see:...
The recent volatility of egg prices in the United States has been a hot topic. Media coverage has consistently made the connection between supply problems and virulent strains of avian flu that has been afflicting poultry birds since 2022.
Many...
Heredity describes how traits are passed from a hen and rooster to their offspring. These traits are encoded in genes, which in turn are found on chromosomes. Since only the end results — but not the genes and chromosomes...
Judging from numerous online posts, many people jump into chicken keeping without giving enough thought to what’s involved. As a result, you see lots of posts listing “things I wish I’d known.” Or along the lines of “advice to...
Perhaps the most self-defeating economic policy of the federal government is supply management for dairy, poultry and eggs.
The policy effectively isolates Canadian dairy farmers from competition and from variation in the price they receive for the milk produced on...
Calculating moisture loss from the egg during the incubation process is a vital tool in achieving good chick quality and hatchability. This allows you to know just how much water is being removed from the egg during incubation.
Weigh the...