BETHLEHEM TWP. − Who needs the Easter Bunny when you can raise chickens that lay colored eggs? On their five acres of paradise, Jason and Stephanie Haines and their six children raise nearly 150 ...

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. The farmers collect ...

Organic farmer Nicolas Netien feeds retired farm hens with scraps of leftover food at a farm, where hens are used to fertilise and mow olive groves in a pilot project, which has boosted crop yields ...

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, ...

AKAKI, Cyprus (Reuters) - 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 ...

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

AKAKI, Cyprus — 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.