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 ...

Do chickens make good pets? According to Tim Reese, supervisor of the Gale Woods Farm in Minnetrista, the answer is yes – with a few conditions. “Raising a chicken is a whole lot easier than raising a ...

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 ...

Urban farming is all the rage, but the cynical, hardened rural farmers among us — that’s me — wonder if you Whole Foods, grass-fed, free-range city wusses understand what you’re getting into when that ...

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 ...

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 ...

After watching the Knicks grind out an 89-80 win over the Bucks last night without Jeremy Lin running the point, Boomer commented that without Lin, the Knicks offense resembled 'a chicken with its ...

Heritage breeders preserve rare poultry breeds for their history, beauty and genetic value, including Minorcas, Dorkings and ...

GRESSIER, Haiti — Each day, Therane Hypolite, 51, tends her hillside chicken coop filled with nearly 400 chirping birds. She feeds them, provides them with water, checks for illness, and when they ...