As backyard chicken farming has increased in popularity across the Bay State, conflict with wildlife has also greatly ...

Build fences around your flowers or free-range areas. ... Anna Sakawsky of The House and Homestead says, 'The most effective way to keep chickens out of garden beds is with physical barriers.

Free-range chickens are housed by the thousands in industrial-sized barns with access to the outdoors at least some of the time. That doesn’t mean they leave the barn.

In fact, even free range chickens should have a coop to return to at the end of the night. The most important things are to keep it dry, warm and easy to clean.

New research has yielded promising results in the fight against campylobacter in free-range chicken flocks. Trials demonstrate that adding biochar to chicken feed can reduce campylobacter in ...

Free-range chickens are housed by the thousands in industrial-sized barns with access to the outdoors at least some of the time. That doesn’t mean they leave the barn.