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 ...
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 ...
Chickens are critters that everyone should own. Every duck hunter knows how hard it is to hit one of those flying torpedoes we call ducks. It takes the average guy a half box of shotgun shells to ...
“Like most people, I initially got chickens because I wanted a source of eggs from hens who I knew had lived good lives,” freelance journalist Tove Danovich says. “It kind of spiraled from there.” ...