Rain or shine, they are on the job in the garden, weeding, killing pests, fertilizing and composting. They don’t knock off until dusk, they work weekends and holidays, and they only take short breaks.

More than 13 million homeowners raise backyard chickens, according to the U.S. Department of Agriculture, and that number is expected to grow over the next several years. You can rear chickens in ...

Chickens are critters that everyone should own. Every duck hunter knows how hard it is to hit one of those flying torpedoes we call ducks. It takes the average guy a half box of shotgun shells to ...

“These funky chickens sure are lucky ducks,” observed my 9-year-old companion as we toured six glamorous garden chicken abodes on the Upper Eastside during a Roosevelt School fundraiser Sunday. From ...