Raising your own holiday turkey may sound like a money-saving homestead hack, but one backyard grower's detailed breakdown suggests the real payoff may lie elsewhere: animal welfare, food quality, and ...

Something strange is happening. The financial case for backyard chickens has collapsed, yet more people are building DIY chicken coops than ever. That contradiction is the most interesting story in ...

This Easter, we've hidden a dozen colorful, egg-centric stories across Reason.com. Hop around the site to find them—or click here to see them all in one basket. Nowadays, in Manhattan, you'd be ...

Jennifer Johnson wants to raise chickens – a dream she's had for nearly a decade. Still, it took until early February, after a dramatic spike in egg prices, for Johnson to convince her husband to say ...

As Chicago-area shoppers hesitate to reach into grocery coolers when they see the price of eggs, Jim Irwin enjoys going out to his backyard chicken coop on Chicago’s Northwest Side, and Annie Lawson ...

Spring is in the air, and like many of you, I visited my local farm supply shop this weekend to pick up compost for my garden. As soon as I walked in, I was distracted by the sounds of little peeps ...

The backyard chicken trend hatched long ago -- the website BackYard Chickens has signed up 280,000 members since its start in 2000, and the New York Times noticed it a mere seven years later -- but ...

Carol Lewis has no regrets about how she voted on the chicken issue. As a longtime member of the St. Cloud, Minn., city council, she’d heard all the arguments. At a December meeting, locals argued ...

Before getting chickens, check local ordinances and HOA rules for permits, lot size, and rooster prohibitions. Chickens require a secure coop to protect them from predators, with adequate indoor and ...