I love chickens. They are a beautiful bird that not only provides us with endless amounts of eggs and easy to cook, delicious meat, but they are a joy to own. Just to stop what you are doing and watch ...

Our three Ameraucana hens needed a new, larger coop. I wanted a greenhouse with a sink, so my neighbor, Shawn Thompson, an excellent carpenter and all-around handyman, designed and built my chicken ...

Mariana Greene’s chickens quit laying eggs while she was recuperating from neuroinvasive encephalitis and was unable to properly care for them. But she’s on her feet again and the flock is getting ...

After visiting a commercial hatchery and deploring the living conditions of its chickens, (Martha) Stewart began keeping them in her backyard. Her Ameraucana hens became famous for their pastel-blue ...

As we enter summer and more people are looking at raising backyard chickens, they may be curious why chicken eggs can be different colors. Most eggs are white or brown, but they also come in other ...

The chirping of 70 of the cutest, fluffiest chicks you ever saw filled Pistils Nursery last Tuesday. Customers in the store on Northeast Mississippi Avenue took turns cooing over the newborn birds.

Raising chickens a family affair in Bethlehem Township. Colored eggs are based on genetics. Haines children are members of 4-H. BETHLEHEM TWP. − Who needs the Easter Bunny when you can raise chickens ...

People are flocking to raise backyard chickens. The chicken business has increased by more than 600 percent in the past two months for both Lisa Samples of Kirtland Hills and Kathy Veigh of Gates ...