For backyard chickens, the number 18 means the same thing. Eighteen weeks is the age when most egg-laying breeds are considered adults. Most excitingly, it’s the time when many breeds will lay their ...

Organic poultry production has long had a challenge in getting feed rations right. Farmers adopting the system accept that bird performance will be lower but, in theory, birds reared under ...

A poultry raiser in Central Luzon tends to his chickens in this file photo. The country’s chicken laying flock inventory as of July 1 rose by 6.4 percent to a record-level of 60.64 million birds ...