For many years, as Easter approached, notices would be put in newspapers and on television cautioning parents not to buy baby chicks for their children as Easter gifts. They may start out soft and ...

In return, they laid more eggs than I could eat. In summer when insects were their chief diet—ants being plentiful, and ...

Next week should be the big egg week, the week the chickens work overtime. But if I am to believe all the bird-flu news, these haggard hens have already been on time and a half – the struggling ...