Childhood visits to my grandparent’s farm served to foreshadow raising chickens of my own. Tossing seed corn, herding a mean rooster to the coop, and reaching under a hen to gather a warm egg were ...

As egg prices skyrocket, you too may be considering if it would be cheaper going straight to the source and raising your own flock. As the steward of four sweet but dimwitted backyard chickens, I'll ...

Wondering what to feed chickens in winter? After 10 years of raising chickens in Iowa where winter temperatures regularly ...

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Morgan Bonner Webb is raising chickens on her Springfield farm as a hobby. The black-and-white ones are Silver Seabrights. They are bantams and grow to 1.5 pounds at their heaviest. And they lay small ...