During national egg shortage and price increases, area chicken owners provide advice on raising chickens in your own backyard.

The bottom line: Raising chickens to keep fresh eggs on hand is ... It advises anyone who handles poultry to wash their hands frequently and to avoid touching eyes, nose, mouth and face after ...

As people scramble for solutions amid the egg shortage, Denver7 spoke with one family seeing firsthand, the success of ...

SPARTANBURG, S.C. (WSPA) – With the rising costs of eggs and other poultry products, as well as a growing concern about a nation-wide outbreak of bird flu, the idea of raising chickens at home ...

With record high egg prices, should the U.S. vaccinate chickens against bird flu? Any such program would be expensive and ...

It was nearly two years ago when Angelia Taylor first heard about owning backyard chickens online. “Honestly, I was seeing it all over Facebook,” Taylor, of Camden County, New Jersey ...

With egg prices at historic highs, Modesto has seen an uptick of interest in backyard chicken tending. Those considering ...

More are on the way. Poultry farms now dot most of North Carolina. The smallest farms raise about 20,000 chickens at a time. The largest: more than 1.5 million. This map, built from two datasets ...

When Walter Brunner, 10, isn’t playing piano, practicing archery or helping out with his 4-H Club, you can find him in the ...

Raising broiler chickens is an excellent youth project for beginners to livestock exhibiting. Chickens are considerably easier to handle, require less space, and are less expensive than other species.

The egg and turkey industries back a vaccine regimen, while farmers who raise broilers — chickens for meat — oppose it unless there are guarantees that global trade, a significant share of ...