Tuesdays and Thursdays are baby chick days at Callahan’s General Store in East Austin. At 9 a.m., employees unload stacks of cardboard boxes filled with tiny peeping birds. By noon, when the chicks go ...

If you have ever thought of starting a backyard chicken coop, go to the Hopkinton State Fair this long Labor Day weekend and talk to a chicken farmer. You can even buy a chicken.Patricia DeMaggio of ...

As Chicago-area shoppers hesitate to reach into grocery coolers when they see the price of eggs, Jim Irwin enjoys going out to his backyard chicken coop on Chicago’s Northwest Side, and Annie Lawson ...

My name is AC, and I’m obsessed with my chickens. This is not hyperbole. I’ve done everything you’re not supposed to do with livestock. I’ve named them, brought them into my house, and despite the ...

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 ...

Some Americans are turning to backyard chickens amid rising egg prices.

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It’s been nearly a decade since Manny Howard published “My Empire of Dirt,” a memoir about transforming his Flatbush backyard into an urban farm and subsisting for a month off only the plants and ...

Many of Detroit's suburbs are talking turkey — about chickens. Interest in backyard chickens is on the rise again in metro Detroit, with several urban communities, such as Huntington Woods, discussing ...