During mating season, which runs from February through late September, one to three eggs hatch a week, Jimenez said. Behind the enclosures is an on-site slaughterhouse, Sustainable Meats, a subsidiary ...

Michael Lehman feeds some of the ostriches he uses for breeding stock on his farm in Redmond, Ore., Dec 21. Central Oregon Ostrich is one of only two farms in the Pacific Northwest that raises the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. It was a frigid weekday morning in January, and Amanda Worman had just made the 20-minute commute to her job at a remote ostrich ...

It was a frigid weekday morning in January, and Amanda Worman had just made the 20-minute commute to her job at a remote ostrich farm south of Boise. What she saw when she arrived stopped her in her ...

The ostriches are separated into groups based mostly on age. The farm has about 90 breeding pens, each filled with one rooster and two to three hens, Jessica Jimenez, the farm’s plant manager, told ...