For backyard chickens, the number 18 means the same thing. Eighteen weeks is the age when most egg-laying breeds are considered adults. Most excitingly, it’s the time when many breeds will lay their ...

As much as urban farming makes our hearts smile, there is now undeniable evidence that amateur animal husbandry also doubles as a sad chicken displacement problem. Once the owners of trendy backyard ...

Ida DeFrancesco loves her “girls.” The Northford farmer also loves sharing them. “The girls are just a normal part of a farm, and getting to bring that to other folks and get to see them get so ...

He was afraid he’d be laughed off the phone when trying to order more turkeys, but he did it anyway. After making a lot of frantic calls to his fellow farmers, Jeremy managed to get 50 more turkeys ...