I’ve joked with friends and family that, with five backyard chickens, I am 2025 rich. Every day, between 9 a.m. and 3 p.m., my family’s feathered flock produces between three and five fresh eggs, ...

It's also one of those purchases that seems a little extra at first glance, until you realize how much calmer and busier your ...

Backyard chickens are basically underage, bored college roommates, stuck in one place, staring out at a world they can see ...

I’ll admit, I jumped on the backyard chicken raising wagon last year. I probably would not have done so if I had joined all the backyard chicken raising groups beforehand. There’s, apparently, a lot ...

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The question of whether to allow backyard chickens came up again Nov. 18 at Skokie’s Village Board meeting after a trustee proposed repealing the village’s ban on the birds. Trustee James Johnson ...

Chickpea and Penelope, recent additions to the Redmond-Richardson household in Emmaus, are curious and cute, mostly quiet and full of bright, colorful feathers. Soon, the young hens will be steadily ...