I’ve tried using a foster broody hen to raise chicks, and it can make brooding chicks easy. To use a hen to hatch eggs (or foster chicks), you first need a broody hen. We’ve heard of different things ...

Egg incubators, such as this Brinsea countertop model, offer another way to hatch chicken eggs if you don't have a broody hen. Now, on to working with broody hens. What follows is an adaptation from ...

Chickens can be surprisingly picky about where they lay their eggs, and sometimes they choose the most unexpected spots.

MOUNT HOLLY, N.J. - The name of Jenn Tompkins' company sends customers into fits of laughter. "When I answer the phone and I say, 'Rent The Chicken, this is Jenn,' they giggle and say, 'I would like ...

We recently wrote about this year’s Hen Hatch winners, where medical science inventions ruled the roost. Now we’re doing a #tbt and checking in with one of Hen Hatch’s 2015 student winners. Gonzalez, ...

The nesting material in our chicken nesting boxes was getting raked out leading to dirty and cracked eggs so this is how I ...

Submissions are open for the preliminary round of the University of Delaware’s annual startup-funding competition, Hen Hatch. While you need to be affiliated with UD to qualify, some entrepreneurs don ...

The University of Delaware’s Horn Entrepreneurship invites submissions from UD students, faculty, staff and alumni for the pitch contest Hen Hatch 2019. Registration and business concept submissions ...

The University of Delaware’s Horn Program in Entrepreneurship invites submissions from UD students, faculty, staff and alumni for Hen Hatch 2017, the university’s premier startup funding competition.