Volume is important at Hy-Line, which sends about 100 million eggs into incubators at its Wilton hatchery annually, and hatch about 40 million hen chicks. Hurlin says getting the idea from the lab ...

They are now caretakers to 20,000 Hy-Line Red hens—a hybrid poultry breed developed for its egg laying capabilities. Outside of the egg farm, Tanner and Randy run Pace Farms, which consists of a ...

Oliyar, a prominent Ukrainian oil and fat manufacturer, has revealed plans to build a farm for 2.3 million laying hens in the ...

The farm collects eggs twice a week, with up to 80,000 eggs being sent to ... The shed is cleaned, the gates disinfected, and another group of Hy-Line hens takes their place in the Grangehall system. ...

Egg-laying chickens are too scrawny to profitably be ... both at hatcheries owned by Hy-Line North America. The process has one key limitation: It works only on brown eggs because male and female ...

In 2003, Heather Karsten at Pennsylvania State University compared eggs from two groups of Hy-Line variety hens, with one kept in standard crowded factory farm conditions and the other on mixed ...