Tuesdays and Thursdays are baby chick days at Callahan’s General Store in East Austin. At 9 a.m., employees unload stacks of cardboard boxes filled with tiny peeping birds. By noon, when the chicks go ...

The highs and lows of raising chickens.

Record-high egg prices have more consumers considering backyard chickens, but farm rescues say they are expensive and hard to ...

CEDAR RAPIDS - Rebecca Mumaw's chickens do more than provide fresh eggs. The hens eat bugs, work the soil, provide fertilizer for her garden and offer an endless source of entertainment for Mumaw, her ...

As Chicago-area shoppers hesitate to reach into grocery coolers when they see the price of eggs, Jim Irwin enjoys going out to his backyard chicken coop on Chicago’s Northwest Side, and Annie Lawson ...

If you have ever thought of starting a backyard chicken coop, go to the Hopkinton State Fair this long Labor Day weekend and talk to a chicken farmer. You can even buy a chicken.Patricia DeMaggio of ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... Emma Barcenas is new to the world of backyard chicken-keeping. She wanted to add a third hen to her burgeoning Denver flock, so she visited Wardle Feed & Pet ...

How many backyard chickens should be allowed? Some Springville residents with larger lots say more should be allowed, but the City Council may cap the number at six for all lots.

It’s been nearly a decade since Manny Howard published “My Empire of Dirt,” a memoir about transforming his Flatbush backyard into an urban farm and subsisting for a month off only the plants and ...