One Trader Joe’s customer has done the unexpected with her carton of eggs. Rather than consuming them, she incubated the fertilized eggs. And a few weeks later, they hatched eight baby chicks. She ...

PETOSKEY — It sounds like spring in the lower level of the Petoskey District Library, with small chirps and tweets echoing around the books. In mid-March, the Petoskey District Library and Emmet ...

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 ...

Seeing chickens hatch has been a dream for Stephanie Theriault since she missed out on the opportunity as a first grader because only a few classrooms at her school could host chicks. “I was ...