In fact, even free range chickens should have a coop to return to at the end of the night. The most important things are to keep it dry, warm and easy to clean.

With more municipalities - including Milwaukee - allowing home chicken-raising, backyard coops are thriving. ... We let the chickens free range and they go all over the yard.

Your best option would be to let them free-range only when you are outside keeping an eye on them. This way you will be able to hear any danger should it arise. Hopefully, you are more prepared now ...

This edition of the Happy Homestead talks about raising your own laying hens from hatching all the way up to full grown hens ...

Other manufacturers make large-scale chicken tractors that accommodate 600 chickens. Whether small-scale, like Egg Cart’n’s, or large scale, this method allows chickens to be moved to new ...

Chickens are wonderful, lovable pets. I heartily recommend them to anyone who has space and is allowed to keep them, but they do require a fair bit of work. While they're certainly capable of taking ...

They were the original free-range birds, running around without restraint in the back of the house where my grandmother kept a close eye on them. ... And that coops and chicken wire are “inadequate ...

Time spent among the brush, caring for chickens and roosters in Conyers, is how Sister Irina Zavala lives out the Catholic ...

CITY HEIGHTS — Long before organic gardening, native plants, sustainability and free-range chicken coops became the trendy ways to landscape backyards in San Diego, there was “Farmer Bill” Tall.

Polk County commissioners vote to decrease the setback for chicken coops, but a new state law prohibits their desired ...