Craving a daily supply of fresh eggs, perhaps you’ve decided to join the urban homesteading movement and get yourself a flock of chickens for the backyard. You’ll start indoors with chicks in a box ...

With USU assistant small acreage livestock and food animal production Professor Joseph Okoh. As warmer months are officially ...

Backyard chicken coops are popping up everywhere! If the idea of raising chickens has piqued your interest, but the thought of building your own chicken coop seems overwhelming or too expensive, ...

You’re a chicken. No, you’re a chicken. Everyone remembers this name-calling contest from childhood, but nowadays that’s becoming a surprising reality for certain members in urban backyards. Chickens ...

And where there are chicken coops, there are likely to be homeowners who are creative, fun loving and resourceful. Home chicken raising is becoming more popular for various reasons, including the ...

With the trend of locally sourced food on the rise, it's no surprise that dozens of major cities are revising their animal ordinances. Rochester is no exception: Backyard chicken coops are growing in ...

Backyard chickens are becoming popular across the country, and many Upstate cities and towns have changed ordinances to allow them. Spartanburg was the first Upstate city to approve raising of ...

Darien, which has no rules on residents’ raising chickens and bees on their property, is expected to soon adopt some restrictions on the number of animals and the size of their enclosures. Because it ...