As you plan your chicken flock, you, like many others, might want to get chickens that lay different colored eggs. We’re all ...

For instance, an "Olive Egger," a chicken that lays olive-green colored eggs, is a cross between a hen and rooster from a brown egg layer and a blue egg layer breed.

An Olive Egger lays green eggs because it is the result of cross breeding between brown- and blue-laying chickens. Likewise, because Easter Eggers are a hybrid breed, a coop will lay a mixture of ...

Reuters Organic farmer Elena Christoforos stands amidst retired farm hens at a farm, where hens are used to fertilise and mow olive groves in a pilot project, which has boosted crop yields and ...

Retired hens have found a new calling: fertilising olive groves in Cyprus. The pilot project, dubbed "Kot-Kot," aims to boost olive yields, combat disease, and tackle food waste simultaneously.

Organic farmers in Cyprus have recruited hundreds of retired hens to fertilize olive groves in a pilot project they say boosts yields, counters disease, and helps to manage food waste. Saved from ...

STORY: While hens are usually sent to slaughter after their egg-laying years, these have been saved - by organic farmers in Cyprus who need them to fertilize their olive groves. :: Akaki, Cyrpus “So, ...

Organic farmers in Cyprus have recruited hundreds of retired hens to fertilize olive groves in a pilot project they say boosts yields, counters disease, and helps to manage food waste. Saved from ...

Organic farmers in Cyprus have recruited hundreds of retired hens to fertilize olive groves in a pilot project they say boosts yields, counters disease, and helps to manage food waste. Saved from ...