Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Deciding to have your own chicken flock at home can be an exciting and slightly overwhelming process. But before you start, ...

Chicken farms in the United States are large. Approximately 95 percent of all laying hens are raised on farms with more than 75,000 birds. Most of these hens reside in climate-controlled confinement ...

It's common to see chickens being kept in Australian backyards. They can deposit their eggs in long grass, around sheltered corners or behind mounds of soil — often anywhere except their fancy nesting ...

Jeanne Firth swings open the heavy wooden gate to the side yard of her Kerlerec Street home in Treme. "Hello ladies!" she calls out and heads toward the chicken run that she and her partner, Will ...

Flora. Individual chicken portraits from Mariana Greene's collection. Shot December 8, 2006. Chicken eggs from the day before at the home of Mariana Greene in Dallas, Texas, on Feb. 22, 2010. Violet, ...

Introduce laying boxes or nests early before the birds reach point of lay. My suggestion would be to bring them in at 12 weeks of age if they are mobile. An ideal situation is to have permanent boxes ...