Millions of male chicks belonging to egg-laying breeds are destroyed. A new breed of chicken has been engineered in Germany. Getty Images Oct. 19, 2013— -- Every year, millions of male chicks are ...

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 ...

The Lycoming County Planning Commission approved a land development plan that would see a chicken farm added to the property owned by local farmer Amos Glick, at its most recent meeting. The plan will ...

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 ...

Neiman Marcus is ringing in the holidays for the 1% with the launch of their 2012 Fantasy Gift Christmas Book – and this year’s edition features a super posh chicken coop for heirloom hens that rings ...

A California animal sanctuary said it rescued 1,000 hens that were going to be euthanized from a struggling Iowa egg farm this weekend. The farm, which the rescue did not name, had to scale down due ...

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 ...

BIRD FLU INFECTING CHICKENS AT A JEFFERSON COUNTY FARM. >> SO THIS HAPPENED AT COLD SPRING EGG FARM IN PALMYRA, OFF HIGHWAY ...