In return, they laid more eggs than I could eat. In summer when insects were their chief diet—ants being plentiful, and ...

As autumn set in last year, I thought Esmerelda, at age seven, had entered a well-merited retirement. For nearly six years ...

Chickens like the Rhode Island Red and Plymouth Rock are famed for their brown eggs. The depth of brown coloring can vary from light to dark chocolate, attributed to the pigment protoporphyrin ...

Markwayne Mullin – like the journalists he “jokingly” threatened a few days ago – may be reminded of a banty rooster, crowing and strutting in a hen yard, and praying the bigger, tougher Rhode Island ...