It all started for Jason Myers-Benner when he was 8 years old, when his parents got backyard chickens. “My parents always knew, if they couldn’t find me, just go out to the chicken coop and that’s ...

Find out what "free range" and "certified humane" really mean. — -- intro: If you’ve been worrying about antibiotics in meat and antibiotic-resistant superbugs, good news: Perdue Farms says it ...

Sometime during or after lockdown, a substantial number of people decided it would easier to raise their own chickens than buying eggs from the grocery store. With worldwide supply chain issues due to ...

Free-range chickens may have greater exposure to bird flu than their caged compatriots because the free flocks have access to outdoor areas that could be visited by wild birds believed to be a primary ...

Chicken producer Perdue Farms has been expanding the volume of free-range chickens it sells in an effort to provide a higher-quality product, as well as to boast a better lifestyle for the birds. That ...

FILE - In this Oct. 21, 2015, file photo, cage-free chickens walk in a fenced pasture at an organic farm near Waukon, Iowa. Some farmers are wondering if it's OK that eggs sold as free-range come from ...

Charles Ochsner has always wanted to be able to make a living off his family's 124-acre spread in rural Glyndon. Now he's decided to raise Cornish cross chickens, without using antibiotics or growth ...

North Carolina’s poultry farms are everywhere. The state cloaks big poultry in secrecy to the point regulators don’t even know where most of the farms are located. Neighbors complain about the stench ...

Packages of Perdue Harvestland “free range” chicken sit on a refrigerated store shelf. Just because a package says “free range” doesn’t necessarily mean the chicken ever left the barn. Ames Alexander ...