Plummeting temperatures are reminding local farmers and backyard poultry enthusiasts to take steps to protect their chickens from the cold. Chickens are the world’s most populous domesticated avian, ...

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At first thought, living out your homesteading dreams by getting backyard chickens may seem like a fantastic idea. Who wouldn ...

Gardening. One of the easiest ways to make a chicken coop environmentally friendly is to combine it with a vegetable garden. Chickens produce high-quality, nitrogen-rich, nontoxic, free fertilizer, so ...

ROCHESTER, N.Y. (WROC) — For anyone who owns chickens — or is thinking about getting them — Lollypop Farm is offering its second annual Backyard Chickens 101 workshop. The event is designed to teach ...

We created this business to increase the convenience and the ease of backyard farming and urban farming in general. [CRAIG NIGRELLI] Backyard chicken farming exploded in the wake of COVID, high egg ...

My mornings started with a gentle clucking as the chickens roused themselves from the dusty loft of their coop stationed in my backyard. It was bizarre, but sweet. I never saw myself as a farm-girl ...

Amid the panic buying and lockdowns at the beginning of the pandemic, Melissa Goodridge felt the urge to be closer to her food source. Goodridge, who lives in Darien, Illinois, says like many ...