SHAN, I don’t want to tell you the second time to L break that hen from sittin’ on a nest egg,” Mom said. “I don’t have enough hens to spare to let one sit on a nest egg.” “Why don’t you put more eggs ...

Producing clean table eggs from a flock raised in a deep litter system has always been a big challenge to most poultry farmers. It even becomes a tall order during the rainy season when the litter ...

Where did the term “nest egg” originate? To encourage the hens to lay more eggs, farmers used to leave one egg in the henhouse. Today, nest eggs typically refer to retirement savings that you do not ...

<P> Chicken eggs provide Daniel Stauffer with the family's bread and butter.<P> He has 4,000 chickens, with 1,700 of them laying eggs at any given time. His 15-acre farm is the new Loveville Hen Yard.