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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

There's free range and then there's free rein — around your house. When Julie Baker's backyard birds started spending more time inside, it was tough to keep them clean. So she got innovative. She ...

PITTSBURGH (KDKA) -- Who would think a city block is home to a chicken farm? "This seems to be catching on, that more and more people are taking up the practice of raising and caring for egg-laying, ...

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 ...

When Svetlana Simon first moved to South Florida from Michigan, one thing the newbie transplant realized she missed most about home was the farm fresh eggs she’d grown up eating, gathered from the ...

On this Arkansas chicken farm, when the public tour starts at dawn, the doors to the chicken barns are closed to keep out night-time predators. Then, the doors are thrown open and there’s a rush of ...

INDIO, Calif. (KESQ) - Despite a steady drop in wholesale egg prices, many California shoppers say they're still paying high prices at the store. In the Coachella Valley, an increasing number of ...