The RSPCA has warned primary schools against egg-hatching projects after almost 20 'starving' chicks had to be rescued having been used for 'educational purposes'. It was feared the baby birds were ...

Primary schools are facing calls to stop hatching chicks to teach children about biology after the practice was branded ‘cruel and archaic’ by charities. The RSCPA and PETA have called for an end to ...

Furious animal charities have blasted primary schools for teaching children about nature by hatching chicks - after an ex-teaching assistant claimed the practice carried out by her former employer is ...

Each spring across Missouri, classrooms come alive with the sounds of chirping chicks as students gather around incubators to watch life unfold. Through the Missouri 4-H “Show Me Embryology” project, ...

When I think of the Los Angeles Unified School District, I don’t generally picture hands-on learning with animals and gardens. So when I found out that a local teacher, Cynthia Christopher, was ...

Hatching your own chicks with a broody hen is an adventure that combines the wonders of nature with the charm of traditional farming. My year/old Easter Egger, Peach, decided she wanted a family of ...

PORTLAND, Ore. (KPTV) - Eight healthy California condor chicks were welcomed at the Oregon Zoo’s Jonsson Center for Wildlife Conversation during hatching season. The zoo says the successful hatching ...

Avian brood parasites and their hosts provide model systems for investigating links between recognition, learning, and their fitness consequences 1,2,3,4. One major evolutionary puzzle has continued ...

African penguins have dwindled to just 9,000 breeding pairs in the wild, and this bounty ends a four-year period without any new chicks Author of the article: You can save this article by registering ...