On any given day, more than 80 roosters can be seen running roughshod on a suburban street just north of downtown. To the south, in Curtis Park, a backyard chicken owner spent hours last week ...

Predators, pests and diseases are not the only challenges a backyard flock owner will have to deal with. Sometimes the problems are originated in the flock itself, and solving them involves lots of ...

Health inspectors who visited the Somerville kitchen where the Chicken & Rice Guys chain prepared its food found a rodent infestation and evidence the chain’s food trucks were routinely supplied with ...

America loves chicken. It’s healthy, delicious, sustainable and — for the moment — the most affordable protein in the meat case. The U.S. chicken industry supports millions of good paying jobs in ...

THE CHICKEN you buy in plastic wrap at the supermarket is a good bargain, a product of intense efficiency, microscopic cost accounting and ruthless competition among huge poultry processors. This ...

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