The Children’s Farm in Palos Park provides six eggs to the Evergreen Park and Orland Park libraries so patrons can view the ...

Pick up tips from readers for building a small hatchery business, selling cut flowers, companion planting with calendula, DIY ...

This means that the sex of the chicken can be determined at hatch by the feather color or other distinctive markings. There are not very many true auto-sexing breeds out there. Here are three ...

Environmental Communications Specialist Brett Peto wrote this article, which originally appeared in Horizons magazine.

Owners can look out for signs their hens are ready to hatch eggs of their own, according to poultry raising equipment experts Hatching Time. If a hen is broody, they may sit on their non ...

On day 21 of the incubation period—the expected hatch date—Bugarin went outside with her toddler to check on the broody hen. She found one chick had already hatched and began collecting eggs ...

Once they hatch, the chicks will move to a brooding ... It’s all about educating kids about raising chickens and egg production. The chickens will then be showed off at the county and state ...