9+ hour, 30+ min ago   (771+ words) David and Sara LeBlanc had a rotating display of the roughly 6-foot-tall (1.8-meter-tall) ornaments decorating their Ogunquit lawn until officials in the small coastal town deemed them to be impermissible advertising for their attached restaurant, The Omelette Factory. The couple…...

2+ week, 2+ day ago   (1611+ words) Despite myriad questions and misgivings, state officials are forging ahead with plans to build a multimillion-dollar facility in Wahiawa with a simple function: cracking eggs. Thousands and thousands of eggs. For Dane Wicker, an ADC board member and Dela Cruz’s…...

1+ mon, 2+ week ago   (459+ words) YORK –– Avian influenza may not be driving up egg prices and prompting culling of poultry stock like it was more than four years ago, but the disease remains in Maine and some experts said chickens are not the only livestock…...

2+ mon, 3+ week ago   (240+ words) Gertie, who turns 16 in July, is a Golden Seabright chicken — an ornamental breed. Turek bought her and several other chicks when he bought his Portland house in 2010. Despite not exactly being a spring chicken — and now being blind — she’s still…...

2+ mon, 3+ week ago   (319+ words) At least 34 people in 13 states have been sickened with salmonella poisoning traced to contact with backyard poultry, including some with infections resistant to common antibiotics, federal health officials said. Backyard poultry include birds like chicken, ducks, geese, guinea fowl and…...