Research has shown that Hy-Line brown hens may be better suited for cage-free production based on overall greater egg ...

they took a commercial egg-laying chicken known as Hy-Line Brown, which is optimized to lay eggs. (These chickens can lay more than 200 eggs a year.) But the team also genetically modified these ...

Most of the birds here are white leghorns, but there also are pure Columbian chickens and brown egg-layers of a commercial breed known as Hy-Line ... a room full of egg-laying hens in cages ...

And America mostly consumes white eggs ... will sex 800,000 laying hens by the end of 2025. In addition to Wilton, a Cheggy machine recently began operating at a Hy-Line hatchery in Texas.

Dozens of his 500 Hy-Line brown laying hens follow him ... The barn is covered with thick, white plastic. Each side can roll up several feet to allow in fresh air. The sides have an inner wire ...

“It’s been a massive shift,” says Elwyn Lewis, sales and technical adviser for Hy-Line, the supplier of Grangehall’s birds. “Keeping hens longer has changed everything. With better gut health, feed, ...