I am a regular reader of your column in The Smart Harvest and Technology pullout. I keep commercial layers and supply my clients with table eggs. As you are aware, the egg industry is now booming, and ...

There are three common causes of soft-shelled and shell-less eggs in chicken. The most common cause is the lack of Calcium in the hen’s diet. A tremendous amount of Calcium is used to form each ...

An eggshell is tough enough to protect a growing chicken, but softens as hatching time approaches so that the chick can pierce the shell. To investigate how shells strike that balance, Marc McKee at ...

INDIANAPOLIS (WISH) — Chicken farms in northern Indiana are reporting “egg drop syndrome,” a disease characterized by soft-shelled and shell-less eggs from otherwise apparently healthy chickens.