The chickens have come home to roost in Avon Lake
During her research, Fenderbosch found that every ward in Avon Lake currently has between six and eight operational backyard ...
New Carlisle council plucks ordinance that would have imposed fee for chickens
Less than a month after New Carlisle voters passed an ordinance that will allow for the raising of hens at residential ...
Millions of chickens leave tiny SC community in uproar. Giant poultry farms raise stink
Industrial-scale poultry farms are descending on a tiny South Carolina community. Neighbors worry about odor and threats to ...
Vox5d
Most “humane” farms are lying to you — and the government isn’t stopping them
The agency states, for example, that a chicken company can use the term “humanely raised” if it feeds its birds an all-vegetarian diet, which has virtually no bearing on their welfare ...
Metro Times6d
Raising chickens, ducks, and bees allowed in Detroit under new urban farming rules
The new rules allow residents to keep up to eight chickens or ducks and up to four bee hives. Urban farms can house 12 ducks ...
Food8d
Soup-To-Nuts Podcast: What does USDA’s stricter definition for ‘pasture-raised’ chicken mean for industry?
A broadly-supported new definition for “pasture-raised” poultry proposed by USDA this fall could help level the playing field ...
Christian Science Monitor12d
Raising hens: A nature writer celebrates the humble chicken
Sy Montgomery fell in love with the chickens she raised. In “What the Chicken Knows,” she reflects on their sociability and ...
Hays Post12d
MADORIN: Chicken nuggets
Over decades, we’ve raised Easter eggers, Plymouth Rocks, Buff Orpingtons, and now ISO browns, learning that white-eared chickens lay white eggs, red-eared hens brown, and funny-eared ones pink, blue, ...