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.

Chickens have flown the coop and moved into the backyard.Kate Richards and her husband, Jonathon Ragsdale, don’t mind at all. In fact, they bought their 108-year-old Sierra Madre farmhouse w… ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...

The summer months can be a struggle for backyard birds and their caretakers, but understanding how to keep them cool during a ...

We wanted to be able to free range the chickens, which would be possible in Mom’s backyard, but a movable coop wasn’t ideal for her situation.

ALBANY, Minn. — As the sun rises at Emmerich’s Produce and Pumpkins farm, about 100 chickens exit their coop. They are free to roam the yard for the rest of daylight. “I know that I have ...

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 ...

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.