Discover the fascinating differences between natural incubation and artificial methods in this detailed look at raising baby chicks. Watch as a mother hen teaches her newly hatched chicks to eat, ...

As much as urban farming makes our hearts smile, there is now undeniable evidence that amateur animal husbandry also doubles as a sad chicken displacement problem. Once the owners of trendy backyard ...

Backyard chicken farming has joined vegetable gardening as one of the hottest trends among do-it-yourself locavores. “Every day I’m surprised by how many people are doing it, and every day someone new ...

What started with only 25 taps and daily bag collection of sap in the maple syrup business has grown over time for the Unick ...

Keeping the lights on and the heaters running in his gigantic chicken houses seems to cost more every year (“house” is the industry term for a chicken barn; each of Weaver’s is more than two football ...

Although a flock of chickens kept in Lancaster city was ordered out of town earlier this year, the topic of urban chicken farming hasn't flown the proverbial coop just yet. Schirlyn Kamara-Sabur, ...

Commercial chicken farmers literally bet the farm, spending millions of dollars on land and enormous chicken houses to raise birds they never own — putting their livelihoods in the hands of a single ...

A decades-long lawsuit seeks to protect the Illinois River watershed from poultry pollution. It's turned into a political ...