The global appetite for factory farmed chicken was deliberately engineered by an industry searching for ‘efficiency’.

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 ...

Do chickens make good pets? According to Tim Reese, supervisor of the Gale Woods Farm in Minnetrista, the answer is yes – with a few conditions. “Raising a chicken is a whole lot easier than raising a ...

Keeping the lights on and the heaters running in his gigantic chicken houses seems to cost more every year (“house” is the industry term for a chicken barn; each of Weaver’s is more than two football ...

For Brooklyn real-estate agent Maria Mackin, the obsession started five years ago, on a trip to Pennsylvania Amish country. She, her husband and three children—now 17, 13 and 11—sat down for brunch at ...

Villagers in Sambo District in Kratie Province of Cambodia can now earn extra income by raising chickens. By spending just a little time and money on chicken care and vaccination, farmers can have ...

GRESSIER, Haiti — Each day, Therane Hypolite, 51, tends her hillside chicken coop filled with nearly 400 chirping birds. She feeds them, provides them with water, checks for illness, and when they ...

CARMEL – It would be easy enough to mistake the Smiths' home in east Carmel for a stereotype of modern suburbia. From the family-sized SUV in the driveway out front to the swing set and basketball ...

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 ...

It's not worth the cost of eggs — cage-free chicken farming, that is. On March 21, Gov. Katie Hobbs ordered a delay in the enforcement of cage-free chicken farming in Arizona in the hopes of lowering ...