Chickens

While city or state ordinances still could bar chicken ownership, homeowners associations, deed restrictions or similar agreements cannot.

Backyard and large-scale farmers in the Midwest and around the country report more deliveries that arrive too late for baby birds to survive. The trend is part of complaints about the USPS as it tries to stem budgetary bleeding.

The wide-reaching legislation also includes provisions on electric vehicle charging stations, a land bank program and chicken ownership.

On Wednesday night, a city committee unanimously approved a recommendation to take the first step in the process for Belleville residents to own up to six female chickens for egg laying.

Poultry producers and backyard flock owners are watching closely as a deadly strain of bird flu spreads across the eastern half of the U.S.

Getting newborn chickens to their owners is always a challenge. But the recent extreme weather posed an challenges for Midwest hatcheries.

About a year ago, Jermell Hasson Williams called the police because he smelled a terrible odor and thought someone might have died in the vacant house…

At the Autism and Behavioral Spectrum School in Ballwin, Missouri, a woman with purple-streaked black hair walked in with a stroller containing a plump,…

On a recent sunny-side-up morning, Seth Jansen delivered two lively hens and a rental coop to Anne Miller’s home in Olivette.Miller smiled nervously as…

If there’s one thing I hate to do as a writer is repeat myself. I don’t like to say the same thing over and over again.But sometimes, stories are so…