With egg shortages expected to last several years, demand for backyard chickens is soaring. Here's what you need to know ...

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

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 ...

the Rhode Island Red Chicken, and most impressively, Pauly D from "Jersey Shore." Good luck with your project, and the next time your parents bring you back to Rhode Island, make sure to order the ...

Next week should be the big egg week, the week the chickens work overtime. But if I am to believe all the bird-flu news, these haggard hens have already been on time and a half – the struggling ...

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