The price of eggs may be through the roof, but that doesn’t mean you’ll save money with a chicken coop. While the popularity — and legality — of backyard chickens is spreading, the economics doesn’t ...

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 ...

In 2010, as part of my wife Elaine’s recovery from breast cancer, I proposed we raise chickens. As a couple, we had never reared any kind of animal, but I had learned that eggs from backyard chooks ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about commodities through a four-decade lens of experience. The high cost of eggs and the arrival of spring is generating ...

SPARTANBURG, S.C. (WSPA) – With the rising costs of eggs and other poultry products, as well as a growing concern about a ...

Three of Jim and Nancy Patterson’s grandchildren — the seventh generation to be reared on the Chester Township-based Patterson Fruit Farm — are revisiting the family’s 1879 agricultural roots by ...

You should know by now that there are more chickens in the world than any other type of bird. They may not be smart or beautiful or willing to learn tricks, but they sure are popular. And for good ...