JAMESTOWN, S.C. (WCBD) – For local farmers raising poultry, making a quality product costs more than someone may think. Rebecca Bills and her family raise dozens of chickens at R&R Acres in Jamestown.
SPARTANBURG, S.C. (WSPA) – With the rising costs of eggs and other poultry products, as well as a growing concern about a nation-wide outbreak of bird flu, the idea of raising chickens at home can be ...
(NewsNation) — Egg prices are skyrocketing to the point that some Americans are taking matters into their own hands and raising chickens in their backyard. Tommy Lane, a Staten Island, New York, ...
From the countryside to Hollywood, backyard farming is the new “it” thing. You might picture A-listers on private jets and in ...
WHITE BEAR LAKE, Minn. — Breakfast and baking keeps getting more expensive thanks to a key ingredient. The Agriculture Department predicts egg prices could rise another 20% this year. That might have ...
If the increasing egg prices have you considering the idea of your own backyard egg production, you’re not alone. Raising chickens, like many other homestead-oriented hobbies, has only increased in ...
MCLEANSVILLE, N.C. — At Fine Feathered Friends Farm & Hatchery in the Triad, the phones haven’t stopped ringing. “We were going to start slow,” said Tina Sharp, the self-proclaimed “chief chicken ...
Carol Lewis has no regrets about how she voted on the chicken issue. As a longtime member of the St. Cloud, Minn., city council, she’d heard all the arguments. At a December meeting, locals argued ...
"Chickens are exotic and beautiful," said Peggy Keyser. A longtime contributor to 207 she is also accomplished at raising chickens. She teamed with Lisa Steele to make the photographs in their book ...
A chicken sits in the grass in a backyard in Texas while others walk along a brick wall. Live chickens have been flying off the shelves at Wabash Feed & Garden in north Houston. "I got 100 hens last ...