No chicken will naturally lay eggs of the vibrant, neon pinks and greens and blues that are commonly found on plastic Easter eggs. But there are hens known as “Easter eggers,” that will lay eggs in ...

I love chickens. They are a beautiful bird that not only provides us with endless amounts of eggs and easy to cook, delicious meat, but they are a joy to own. Just to stop what you are doing and watch ...

A distraught California farmer is searching for the culprit behind the disappearance of almost 300 specialty hens that lay unusual colored pastel eggs. White and brown eggs may be perfectly good for ...

Hundreds of hens who lay unique pastel-colored eggs have been stolen from a family's farm just weeks before Easter. Gerald Leuschen, who hand-raised the chickens on Buddy's Farm in Sonoma County, ...

There’s still more than a week until the Easter Bunny makes his rounds, but on Wednesday some young kids from Airdrie got an unusual taste of the fun to come. It came on a field trip with their ...

Dyeing eggs was always high on my childhood list of favorite Easter activities. It outranked both the egg hunt and getting a new outfit. So I read with interest my fellow writer Taylor Smith's article ...

A lot of Easter traditions — including hot cross buns and lamb on Sunday — stem from medieval Christian or even earlier pagan beliefs. The chocolate Easter egg, however, is a more modern twist on ...

A few years ago, Joe Sheppard never imagined that his backyard would have feathered residents in it. Sheppard, known to local historians and ancestor-hunters for his job in the North Carolina Room at ...

A lot of Easter traditions – including hot cross buns and lamb on Sunday – stem from medieval Christian or even earlier pagan beliefs. The chocolate Easter egg, however, is a more modern twist on ...