Interestingly, the M. albomyces strain, which was isolated from chicken nest straw in Nevada, grew readily on the cellulose medium in contrast to what was previously reported for a strain of M. albomyces isolated from forest soil and compost in India (Maheshwari and Kamalam 1985).
Laying house, in animal husbandry, a building or enclosure for maintaining laying flocks of domestic fowl, usually chickens, containing nests, lighting, roosting space, waterers, and feed troughs.
Corporations that own factory farms have taken pains to keep their operations secret, hidden behind marketing imagery of chickens in nests and cattle in grassy pastures, but that's no surprise.
Among the crimes currently being committed in the name of burgers – burgers sandwiched in doughnuts, or between slabs of fried chicken, or in nests of fried noodles or huge beef tomatoes – this one ranks among the worst.
Other musts are the lightly blackened swordfish paired with a golden lentil-vegetable salad, the succulent roasted chicken atop a nest of chive-dotted mashed potatoes all encircled with a sauce of morel mushrooms, roasted garlic andsage, and baby rack of veal cut into tiny, juicy chops placed upon a portobello tart filled with sun-dried tomato, fresh mozzarella and black olive tapenade.
The menu lists six varieties of fries (served in cake pans) and a mere three entrees: the aforementioned roasted chicken, on a nest of farro, wilted beet greens and butternut squash; a very good eggplant parmesan; and pork belly with caramelized apples and smoked bacon jus.
She tells of the existential threat felt by the barren ("I worried I was doomed to a depthless life") and of the depression, which is both occasional cause and predictable effect of infertility: "Which comes first: the down-in-the-dumps chicken or its empty nest?" She characterises as "a naive gamble" her decision to return three embryos at a time to her womb.
After 1 week in the lab, each of the pairs had created small webs, or nests, on chicken wire within separate containers.
If the mites are present in farm birds - like chickens - replace all nesting materials and add fresh garlic to their drinking water.
God designed chickens to make nests, lay eggs, raise their chicks, and establish communities (the "pecking order").
