Common chicken "wisdom" suggests that the more orange the yolk, the better the egg. A bright orange yolk implies that the ...

You've heard the age-old riddle: "Which came first: the chicken or the egg?" Taken metaphorically, it's a meditation on the futility of determining the cause of a self-perpetuating cycle. Taken ...

I sometimes get asked if there's a physical difference between a fertilised and unfertilised chicken egg, so I cracked a few of my own and compared them to unfertilised commercial eggs. It seems to me ...

What came first, the egg or the chicken? The dilemma has caused everyone, from classroom teenyboppers to leaders, to scratch ...

Fertilised chick eggs can be sexed by the “sniffing” of chemicals that they exude through their shells, a new study has found. The technique could lead to a better, more humane treatment of chicks, ...

Record-high egg prices have more consumers considering backyard chickens, but farm rescues say they are expensive and hard to care for.

WHITE BEAR LAKE, Minn. — Breakfast and baking keeps getting more expensive thanks to a key ingredient. The Agriculture Department predicts egg prices could rise another 20% this year. That might have ...