Kids and chickens go well together. Here Maxwell’s youngest son, Jacob, enjoys a feathered friend. Jake has since gone on to become a veterinarian. (Credit: Photo Steve Maxwell ) Local food production ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about commodities through a four-decade lens of experience. The high cost of eggs and the arrival of spring is generating ...

At the end of April, the City of Toronto ruled to indefinitely pause UrbanHensTO, a pilot project launched in 2018 that permitted residents of select wards to keep up to four hens in their backyards.

As we become more interested in the quality of our food -- and the quality of life for the animals that make it -- more and more people are jumping on the backyard chicken bandwagon. After all, what's ...

Think you might want to get a few chickens to produce fresh eggs from your own back yard? You can find out everything you need to know Saturday at a backyard poultry seminar from 1 to 4 p.m. at the ...

CLEVELAND, Ohio -- According to the USDA, Alphainfluenzavirus influenzae, or bird flu, has eradicated more than 13 million chickens nationwide in the past 30 days—and more than 3 million of those are ...

The rust-coloured hens running around like maniacs in Raygan Solotki’s downtown Inuvik yard are getting their first taste of the outdoors this year. It’s May, and they’ve spent the past seven months ...

Local food production is an idea that’s been around for a while, and how you manage your home and yard is part of making it happen. Keeping chickens in urban and suburban neighbourhoods is one case in ...