At the subsequent Cobourg committee of the whole meeting on July 11, councillors were presented with three options: direct staff to suspend enforcement of the bylaw and, in this particular instance, ...

A Canadian Bresse chicken at Grade Eh Farms in Delta. Vancouver reports 249 total registrations to date for backyard poultry, six years after city councillors first gave backyard hens the green light.

Just because your chickens don't have the run of the backyard at all times doesn't mean you can't keep them comfortable. In fact, even free range chickens should have a coop to return to at the ...

Although the term "free-range" is not legally defined in Canada, it generally means birds have some access to the outdoors. Uncaged chickens can include free-range and non-free-range.

As more B.C. municipalities allow backyard poultry, and more people seek to reconnect with their food sources, chickens are becoming “feather babies” in addition to farm animals.