One of the earliest and most often debated questions among human beings of all time is about which one came first! The ...

What came first, the chicken or the egg? If we’re talking about eggs in general, then the latter, but a new study of an ancient single-celled organism suggests the genetic tools to “create” eggs may ...

Researchers at University of Tsukuba, have developed a method for culturing fertilized chick eggs without their shells. The eggs were placed in an artificial culture vessel made of transparent ...

A new system could keep those chicks from ever existing, by analyzing the scent of eggs to ascertain the sex of the embryo inside. There are already two main methods of sexing unhatched chicken ...

The question 'What came first: Chicken on the egg?' is one of the most baffling of evolutionary conundrums. Everyone from scholars to schoolchildren have been stumped by the question, but ...

The system began operating this month in Iowa at the nation's largest chick hatchery, which handles about 387,000 eggs each day.

The sex of the embryo inside a fertilized chicken egg is identified by “sniffing” volatile organic chemicals that diffuse through the eggshell.

Every year the U.S. egg industry kills about 350 million male chicks because they will never lay eggs.