About 20 years ago, chickens—long a staple of farms and homesteads—began showing up in urban and suburban yards. They enabled city dwellers to source homegrown food, provided a touch ...
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The retailer, capitalizing on America’s soaring interest in tending to egg-laying flocks, will sell 11 million chicks this year, plus all the stuff you need (or don’t need) to go with them. School’s ...
Chicks gather under a heat lamp before being sold to customers at the Altamont Country Values Agway store on March 28 in Altamont. Chick transportation boxes are stored at the Altamont Country Values ...
The highs and lows of raising chickens.
Two years ago, Heather Weick was looking at chicks at Tractor Supply. Since she was a young girl watching chickens in her grandmother’s backyard, she’d always dreamt of having pet chickens of her own.