Backyards have gone to the birds! With everyone from Jennifer Garner to Carrie Underwood flocking to the trend of raising ...

Thinking of raising a few chickens to provide eggs, but worried about getting in over your head? PM senior home editor Roy Berendsohn provides general guidelines on chicken care and how to build a ...

Community organizer Kelli Wefenstette, 33, and her husband have been raising hens in their Portage Park backyard for seven years. The birds do a lot more than lay eggs, she says. “They’ll chase after ...

The price of eggs may be through the roof, but that doesn’t mean you’ll save money with a chicken coop. While the popularity — and legality — of backyard chickens is spreading, the economics doesn’t ...

YOUTH is no longer wasted on the young. Dynamic entrepreneur and hen-breeder, 13-year-old Andrew Butler, is teaching people a thing or two. He's a first year secondary school student who decided to do ...