The livestock subsector contributes over 10% GDP to the Kenyan economy. Poultry are the most abundant livestock species, and domestic chicken (98%) are the most important, with other poultry species ...

The FAPP ventilating system used to maintain "disease-free" poultry flocks was adapted to brooding of broiler chicks. Day-old commercial broiler chicks have been brooded under FAPP conditions for 8 to ...

You’d think that hatching chicks from eggs would be easy – after all, birds do it. But it turns out to be a fussy business for humans, and what momma bird does naturally isn’t necessarily easy for us.

The U.S. meat industry is striving to crack a conundrum: Why fewer eggs are hatching chicks. Over the first five months of the year, the percentage of eggs hatching broiler chickens, raised for their ...