The vast majority of states chose pretty little songbirds as their state bird. Massachusetts went with the black-capped chickadee. Connecticut went for the ubiquitous American robin. The Northern ...

Baby chicks including Black Australorps, Rhode Island Reds and Buff Orpingtons huddle next to each other for warmth in their brooding pen. Kelly Rausch File photo With the rise in the price of eggs, ...

Our house came with a chicken coop, complete with a fenced-in chicken run. We were used to cats: after the one we had for 16 years died, we loaded up with four more. Four cats is a lot, but that ...

No one was watching 18-month-old Carol Krieg when she crawled into a chicken yard in Hood River, Ore. one day last week. But a big Rhode Island Red rooster was soon angrily aware of the intrusion on ...