Rocky the Range Chicken was introduced in 1986 to strike a blow against the industrialization of chicken ranching and the resulting antibiotic-laden, vapid-tasting bird. Petaluma Poultry produces the ...

David Hager has a big hobby. “It’s like playing golf or anything else,” Hager says. “It’s a hobby.” However, Hager’s hobby is raising and showing some 240 bantam chickens at his home in Mount Ulla.

Mariana Greene’s five chicks have grown into pullets, but still await names. After weeks of consideration, feminine French names seem likely. ( Lara Solt - Staff Photographer ) According to a story in ...

Recently I visited a large chicken house in rural North Carolina to get some questions answered about how chickens are raised. Are chickens given hormones so they can grow faster or larger? No! Many ...