Backyard chickens have shifted from novelty to normal, but the disease pressure around them has shifted too. With highly ...

Record-high egg prices have more consumers considering backyard chickens, but farm rescues say they are expensive and hard to care for.

"Hearst Magazines and Yahoo may earn commission or revenue on some items through these links." Backyards have gone to the birds! With everyone from Jennifer Garner to Carrie Underwood flocking to the ...

Sunday: Turning cloudy, with a high of 32 and low of 28 degrees.

Lisle has joined the ranks of DuPage County towns allowing residents to own backyard hens. Last week, the Lisle village board voted 5 to 1 to approve an ordinance amending its village codes on animal ...

The legislation, House Bill 806, would still let local governments regulate backyard chickens, including imposing setback ...

The clucking of backyard hens may soon become a permissible sound in Lombard. On Thursday, the Lombard board of trustees indicated they would strongly be in favor of establishing policies for "keeping ...

Recently, the Franklin County Economic Development and Planning Department passed a resolution to recommend small flocks of backyard hens in our county as a way to improve the county's food security, ...

Somehow or other, it has become the mark of twenty-first century urban hipness to keep a bunch of birds out back. We're mostly talking hens. Exact numbers are unavailable, but the trend has become ...

The Citizens of Blue Springs for Backyard Hens made T-shirts, went door to door and stayed known at city council meetings. KSHB 41 reporter Claire Bradshaw covers eastern Jackson County, including ...