Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. What is cute and fuzzy, and doesn't have feathers but is flying out of farm stores at warp speed anyway? If you guessed "baby ...

Italy is getting ready to end a long-standing routine in its egg industry: the killing of newborn male chicks. For decades, hatcheries have sorted chicks within hours of hatching, and millions of ...

The operator of a chick hatchery in Spencer that was the target of an undercover video released last week says a “direct and clear” violation of its procedures shown in the video has been corrected.

The weeks leading up to Easter are typically busy for chicken hatcheries, but demand for chicks this spring has far exceeded normal volumes. Hatcheries are scrambling to keep up with orders. Meghan ...

It looks like toilet paper and disinfectant wipes aren’t the only things people hoarded during this pandemic. The nation’s biggest chicken hatcheries are reporting they are currently sold out of baby ...

WILTON, Iowa — Every year the U.S. egg industry kills about 350 million male chicks because, while the fuzzy little animals are incredibly cute, they will never lay eggs, so have little monetary value ...

CHICAGO -- Perdue Foods has removed all antibiotics from its chicken hatcheries. But shoppers could pay the price at the check-out line. The company said it has not used antibiotics for growth ...