Craving a daily supply of fresh eggs, perhaps you’ve decided to join the urban homesteading movement and get yourself a flock of chickens for the backyard. You’ll start indoors with chicks in a box ...

I’ve been using a small backyard chicken coop, the Back Porch Chicken Coop from GardenEggs.com, for the last several months. It’s housed a cockerel and three pullets that aren’t quite old enough to be ...

"Hearst Magazines and Yahoo may earn commission or revenue on some items through these links." Are you looking to start raising chickens or add to your brood? With the price of eggs, we don't blame ...

"Hearst Magazines and Yahoo may earn commission or revenue on some items through these links." There’s something to be said about having your own chickens and fresh eggs right in your own backyard. It ...

Coop-a-doodle-do! The first step in the increasingly popular hobby of raising chickens is to outfit your birds with a home. “Art of the Chicken Coop” provides detailed instructions for building seven ...

When I convinced my boyfriend we needed chickens about six months ago, I thought building a coop would be easy and relatively cheap. While I adore our now-complete henhouse, it ended up costing about ...

And where there are chicken coops, there are likely to be homeowners who are creative, fun loving and resourceful. Home chicken raising is becoming more popular for various reasons, including the ...

Oct. 24, 2011 -- When Owen Taylor got hired six years ago as the "city chicken intern" at Just Food, some people thought his job title was funny. Today no one in the food world would make a peep.

Carol A. Cates, MSN, MBA, RN, NEA-BC, is the chief nursing officer at Odessa Regional Medical Center. You can reach her via e-mail at [email protected] If my mom were around today, she would be called ...