DANBURY – To Alina and Xavier Gomez and their two daughters, raising a half-dozen chickens at their 2-acre home in the spacious southern end of the city is as natural as planting a vegetable garden ...

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Source: Anil Öztas, via Wikimedia Commons. Chickens are experiencing a surge in popularity. In the U.S. alone, there are an estimated 85 million backyard or household chickens, making them the third ...

Maeve Elliott, 10, doesn’t understand why College Township is trying to take her “family” away. The bouncing fifth-grader, a walking encyclopedia of animal trivia, has nurtured her four baby chicks ...

When Donny Henderson calls the girls, it’s usually not for his two daughters but the family’s six hens, which he defended as pets in a recent Lower Burrell Zoning Hearing Board action. Henderson and ...

This story is from The Pulse, a weekly health and science podcast. Find it on Apple Podcasts, Spotify or wherever you get your podcasts. For years, Ms. V wanted chickens in the backyard of her ...

The Combs family of Kettering has a flock of pet chickens in their backyard, but whether the 18 chickens violate the city’s rules is up for debate with the city’s zoning appeals board. “I love these ...

KANSAS CITY, Mo. - As the urban chicken fad grows up, so do the chickens. And that has become a snag for some urban farmers who jumped on the bandwagon for their own supply of fresh eggs: Most hens ...

Council members aren’t chickening out on the issue of farm animals in the city limits. Columbus City Council President Tim Shuffett has asked for a draft of an ordinance about regulating chickens and ...