This edition of the Happy Homestead talks about raising your own laying hens from hatching all the way up to full grown hens ...

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Answers to the top questions about raising backyard chickens for eggs, including how much they cost, what you need in your chicken coop, and the best breeds. How to Raise Chickens: An Easy-to ...

How you can speak to your chickens: Scientists say you can tell if birds are happy, sad, tired or lonely based on their CLUCKS - so, can you decipher these noises?

For the last few months, the Stevens family’s property in Royalton has also been the home to 12 chickens. As the regulations ...

This is a story about happy chickens. It turns out that the happier the chickens, the better they taste when humans cook them and eat them. It’s also true that happy chickens often result from ...

Those chatty British chickens have been supersized. Now, instead of the quaint country cry of “I don’t want to be a pie!” from the 2000 Claymation classic “Chicken Run,” the fed-up ...

The Happy Chicken Coop website has some helpful step-by-step guides. The chickens also need a place to lay their eggs — a nest box.

And chickens can’t just run wild throughout a neighborhood. Animal codes could put you in hot water, with citations if chickens escape from your yard or they are not cooped up at night. “Those ...

It’s a scene he’s gotten used to, but not one he’s happy about. On summer days, the smell of chickens and manure often drifts across his community from the farm near his property, Blackmon says.