And to get started, first make sure it's all legal. Check your local town ordinances to see if there are any restrictions in ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about commodities through a four-decade lens of experience. The high cost of eggs and the arrival of spring is generating ...

The answer may surprise you. There are various upfront costs to raising chickens like buying the animals and equipment. Consider size, materials, labor, and maintenance before building a chicken coop.

Ensure your birds have the space to express normal behavior. Learn how to raise chickens humanely by following the animal Five Freedoms as an everyday guide, or when you’re just beginning. Like many ...

If you live in a region that feels like it rains more often than not, you’re not alone—and neither are your chickens! Raising backyard chickens in super wet and rainy conditions presents unique ...

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 ...

No farm? No problem. Here's exactly how to build a chicken coop and raise healthy hens in a regular backyard.

The price of eggs may be through the roof, but that doesn’t mean you’ll save money with a chicken coop. While the popularity — and legality — of backyard chickens is spreading, the economics doesn’t ...

Even ignoring the coop as a sunk cost, you spend $600 a year on feed to produce $219 worth of eggs. That is a $381 loss every ...

I’ll admit, I jumped on the backyard chicken raising wagon last year. I probably would not have done so if I had joined all the backyard chicken raising groups beforehand. There’s, apparently, a lot ...

Jennifer Johnson wants to raise chickens – a dream she's had for nearly a decade. Still, it took until early February, after a dramatic spike in egg prices, for Johnson to convince her husband to say ...