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 ...

Backyard chicken farming has joined vegetable gardening as one of the hottest trends among do-it-yourself locavores. “Every day I’m surprised by how many people are doing it, and every day someone new ...

The Lycoming County Planning Commission approved a land development plan that would see a chicken farm added to the property owned by local farmer Amos Glick, at its most recent meeting. The plan will ...

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 ...

When Svetlana Simon first moved to South Florida from Michigan, one thing the newbie transplant realized she missed most about home was the farm fresh eggs she’d grown up eating, gathered from the ...

A Linn County judge has invalidated a permit for a proposed chicken farm that would have raised over three million chickens per year east of Salem. The decision, issued Tuesday, follows years of push ...

Commercial chicken farmers literally bet the farm, spending millions of dollars on land and enormous chicken houses to raise birds they never own — putting their livelihoods in the hands of a single ...

On this Arkansas chicken farm, when the public tour starts at dawn, the doors to the chicken barns are closed to keep out night-time predators. Then, the doors are thrown open and there’s a rush of ...