For Christin New, whose multigenerational family moved from Redwood City, California, to a 2-acre home in the nearby Santa ...

US shoppers are buying a record number of baby chickens from rural retailer Tractor Supply Co. as egg prices remain elevated.

Are they good mamas if you want them to raise baby chicks ... is about four square feet per bird in the coop; so if you have ten regular-sized chickens, you will need a 5-by-8-foot coop.

Bruhn suggested DIY projects like building a coop from scratch and repurposing an old woodshed you might find on sale in an online marketplace like Facebook. Bruhn said baby chicks cost $6-15 each.

Anyone who starts a flock because they’ve been dreaming about backyard chickens pecking in the yard will likely be happy with ...

Instead of selling chicks during its annual Chick Days, Smithland Pet & Garden Center in Southington sold out of them weeks ago.

A long line of customers wrapped around Atascadero Hay and Feed early Friday morning. “I didn’t know how many people were ...

Jennifer Johnson wants to raise chickens – a dream she's had for nearly a decade. Still, it took until early February, after a dramatic spike in egg prices, for Johnson to convince her husband to say ...

Erica Marks was looking to add some baby chicks to the flock of backyard chickens at her Pembroke home this spring, but she ...

She concluded the video with a snippet of all of the chicks together in a makeshift coop. “No egg shortage here !” she quipped. “Thank you #TraderJoes How cute are these baby chicks?!” ...

Cardona, the professor, warns that new hobbyists motivated by high egg prices to start their own coop may get more than they bargained for. “Raising chickens is a wonderful hobby, but they’re ...