Why do birds lay blue eggs? Well, the blue color has biliverdin ... Their eggs are usually powder blue with no spots at all and measure 0.6 to 0.9 inches in width. Sometimes, however, bluebirds ...

But there’s a small and rare group of mammals that do things differently– they lay eggs ... approach to childbirth. Unlike birds and reptiles, monotreme eggs have soft, leathery shells ...

"We use a humane method to euthanize all the birds. It's all supervised by ... the crops as feed for his chickens. He has 900 laying hens for eggs and 700 broiler chickens — or chickens used ...

So far, nearly all the cases were transmitted through contact with infected birds ... of egg-laying hens in the United States due to this outbreak, causing a shortage of table eggs for consumption ...

"All of those birds that need to be replaced still have to grow," said Debbie. It takes about 5 months for new birds to lay eggs. With so many farmers looking to replace their flocks, they don't ...

Shoppers used to picking up the cheapest eggs at the grocery store may now be reaching for higher-end cartons. That’s because bird flu is turbocharging ... Through it all, specialty egg distribu ...

Most of the birds culled to stop the epidemic have been egg-laying hens, causing the availability of eggs to plummet and the price to soar. However, one pressure group believes that the lack of ...

“Birds that have avian influenza die and they’re sick and they don’t lay eggs,” said Amber Itle ... that the virus be stamped out, meaning all the birds must be culled, or “depopulated.” ...