That longtime practice is changing, thanks to new technology that enables hatcheries to quickly peer into millions of fertilized eggs and spot male embryos, then grind them up for other uses ...

Free range, cage free, pasture raised. These are all descriptors we find on our egg cartons purportedly used to describe the living conditions of the chickens who laid them. But what do they ...

Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. Newly hatched chicks are seen after being sorted in a machine that provides a new technique to enable ...

WILTON, Iowa (AP) — Every year the U.S. egg industry kills about 350 million male chicks because, while the fuzzy little animals are incredibly cute, they will never lay eggs, so have little ...

Grocery shoppers may have noticed – egg prices are going up again. A lot. When the Bureau of Labor Statistics released its November Consumer Price Index last week, it showed the price of eggs ...

Eggs prices are rising, and industry experts project that these higher costs will persist into 2025, particularly if Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza (HPAI) also known as "bird flu" infections ...

Conception, the fertilization of an egg by a sperm, normally occurs in the fallopian tubes. The next step for the fertilized egg is to implant into the walls of the uterus, beginning the initial ...

But despite being unusually fertile, at my age the doctors felt it was better to freeze embryos, not eggs. Then, though, I’d be committing to him being the father of my future child, and I knew ...

Egg prices have gone up generally due to the spread of bird flu. There are other factors at play too, such as the high cost of labor and chicken feed. Experts predict that the price of eggs will ...

Seeking to improve success in fertility treatments, the Japan Society of Obstetrics and Gynecology will now support screening of chromosomes of fertilized eggs created through in-vitro ...