Backyard chickens are allowed in O’Fallon agriculture and rural residential zoning districts with no permit required, ...

Breeding chickens is popular among farmers and homesteaders who ... the hens should be kept separate from other breeds of roosters for at least two weeks before you start to collect eggs for hatching.

the possibility for incorporating eggs into basic foods became standard practice. Around 7,500 BC, people in southeast Asia were collecting chicken eggs for food. The eggs of other fowl, such as ...

The "remarkable collection" of other organic finds included ... made of woven oak bands and willow rods, and four chickens' eggs." The eggs were so fragile, three broke releasing a "potent stench ...