Childhood visits to my grandparent’s farm served to foreshadow raising chickens of my own. Tossing seed corn, herding a mean rooster to the coop, and reaching under a hen to gather a warm egg were ...

Mariana Greene’s five chicks have grown into pullets, but still await names. After weeks of consideration, feminine French names seem likely. Lara Solt - Staff Photographer According to a story in the ...

Milagro and Geisha Girl live in a two-level home with a picket fence that wraps around the stilts of their house and a backyard enclosed in wire mesh to keep foxes and raccoons from attacking. Geisha ...

Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. Prized for its fresh-laid eggs, the backyard chicken is nothing new for many families. But if you take a walk in Selena Griffith's back ...

Modern Farmer: How’d you first get interested in shooting chickens? Ernest Goh: After I published my first book on fish, I decided to continue to photographing animals. So I found a farmer in Malaysia ...

David Hager has a big hobby. “It’s like playing golf or anything else,” Hager says. “It’s a hobby.” However, Hager’s hobby is raising and showing some 240 bantam chickens at his home in Mount Ulla.

Eric Stromberg: [00:00:00] A few reasons to keep roosters on the farm. Some people like the actual noise that they crow and they make a lot of people will keep a rooster as kind of that first line of ...

Chickens are some of the most versatile animals around. They can be great pets, and they can also be a useful source of food. No matter why you plan on keeping chickens, you need to know the best ...