Sometime during or after lockdown, a substantial number of people decided it would easier to raise their own chickens than buying eggs from the grocery store. With worldwide supply chain issues due to ...

CSA, locavore, grass-fed, free-range, cage-free, farm-to-table, organic, animal welfare - all these words reflect a commitment to the responsible use of the land and animals that sustain us. Healthy ...

PARTRIDGE — Keeping chickens safe, healthy and happy can often be daunting. Sometimes the coyotes or raccoons snatch them. Or maybe they nibble on too many garden vegetables. To circumvent predators ...

Chickens have flown the coop and moved into the backyard. Kate Richards and her husband, Jonathon Ragsdale, don’t mind at all. In fact, they bought their 108-year-old Sierra Madre farmhouse with one ...

What makes an organic chicken organic? Here are the details on raising free-range and organic poultry. With all the concerns about food these days — namely, fats, trans fat, probiotics and omega 3s – ...

ALBANY – As the sun rises at Emmerich's Produce and Pumpkins farm, about 100 chickens exit their coop. They are free to roam the yard for the rest of daylight. "I know that I have really happy and ...

Chicken psychology You need more than an open pasture to encourage free-range chickens to fly the coop. A new pilot study, led by Dr Jean-Loup Rault from the Animal Welfare Science Centre at the ...

When Rupert Croft's son, Sammy, began asking for pet chickens for his 8th birthday, the Pittsburgh dad was unsure where to begin. As Croft and his wife, Tiziana Di Matteo, began to research urban ...

Free-range chickens may have greater exposure to bird flu than their caged compatriots because the free flocks have access to outdoor areas that could be visited by wild birds believed to be a primary ...

PARTRIDGE — Keeping chickens safe, healthy and happy can often be daunting. Sometimes the coyotes or raccoons snatch them. Or maybe they nibble on too many garden vegetables. To circumvent predators ...