SAN ANTONIO – Peter Cortez started raising chickens in his backyard in 2017. His first few years didn’t go so well; it was a learning curve, but he quickly caught on. When Cortez married, his family ...

“Like most people, I initially got chickens because I wanted a source of eggs from hens who I knew had lived good lives,” freelance journalist Tove Danovich says. “It kind of spiraled from there.” ...