In this episode of Mother Earth News and Friends, Dalia Monterroso of Chickenlandia shares how to have a successful brooding experience, and what to do to make sure your chicks stay healthy and happy ...

LONGMONT — All that talk that backyard chickens would produce more work for this city’s code-enforcement and animal-control officers turns out to be nothing more than clucking. A report presented by ...

Egg incubators, such as this Brinsea countertop model, offer another way to hatch chicken eggs if you don't have a broody hen. Now, on to working with broody hens. What follows is an adaptation from ...

We’re trying to get the depleted (we think raccoons) chicken flock to reproduce itself, but I am not confident.You’d think that reproductive behaviors — not that kind! This is a family newspaper — ...

The U.S. meat industry is striving to crack a conundrum: Why fewer eggs are hatching chicks. Over the first five months of the year, the percentage of eggs hatching broiler chickens, raised for their ...