Nature has its own way of coloring eggs, and it doesn’t require boiling water, food coloring or paintbrushes. Let’s eggs-plore how this happens.

An initiative in Zambia is showing that a profit-seeking company can help rural farmers battling extreme weather breed chickens that lay more eggs. Village chickens in Petauke, Zambia.Credit ...

For months, the virus decimated egg-laying chicken farms, limiting egg availability ... The hens, including a Red Laced Cornish and a Black Langshan, lay between two and three dozen eggs a week.

For personal reasons Marchewka no longer operates Roos and Bawks, and currently isn’t adding any more chickens to her flock. Marchewka notes that most hens don’t start laying eggs until they are 5 ...

when resident Joseph Mangiameli filed a petition with the council that proposed allowing residents to raise chickens “for the sole purpose of laying eggs.” Among other reasons, Mangiameli ...