For the past decade, one peculiar story has made the rounds, detailing something out of a futuristic, dystopian movie: a high-tech, fully automated egg city in China. It’s a place that poultry farmers ...

Backyard chicken farming has joined vegetable gardening as one of the hottest trends among do-it-yourself locavores. “Every day I’m surprised by how many people are doing it, and every day someone new ...

Here’s a novel way to help the environment and lower your grocery bills at the same time: Keep some chickens in your backyard. The “urban chicken” movement has transformed from trend into tradition ...

Millions of male chicks belonging to egg-laying breeds are destroyed. A new breed of chicken has been engineered in Germany. Getty Images Oct. 19, 2013— -- Every year, millions of male chicks are ...

As much as urban farming makes our hearts smile, there is now undeniable evidence that amateur animal husbandry also doubles as a sad chicken displacement problem. Once the owners of trendy backyard ...