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 ...
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 ...
There's free range and then there's free rein — around your house. When Julie Baker's backyard birds started spending more time inside, it was tough to keep them clean. So she got innovative. She ...
Although a flock of chickens kept in Lancaster city was ordered out of town earlier this year, the topic of urban chicken farming hasn't flown the proverbial coop just yet. Schirlyn Kamara-Sabur, ...
On this Arkansas chicken farm, when the public tour starts at dawn, the doors to the chicken barns are closed to keep out night-time predators. Then, the doors are thrown open and there’s a rush of ...
There's free range and then there's free rein — around your house. When Julie Baker's backyard birds started spending more time inside, it was tough to keep them clean. So she got innovative. She ...