chickens
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Know the health risks when raising backyard birds
As warmer weather and peeping baby chicks mark the springtime return of migrating wild birds and backyard flocks, state health and agriculture officials are encouraging people to keep…
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Ask a Master Gardener: Chickens in the garden
There’s more to consider than fresh eggs when raising chickens at home. For gardeners, that includes keeping both chickens and plants safe and productive.
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Jessie Raymond: Aspiring house hen expands her range
I knew our hen Monique was different from other birds. But if you had told me when we got her two years ago that she would one day start…
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Straub wins big with her chickens
There are quite a few people in Addison County who raise chickens for both eggs and meat, but not many are involved in the Poultry judging circuit.
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Electric fencing offers protection for chickens
Keeping a small flock of chickens at home to provide eggs and meat has become increasingly popular, but many first-time, small-scale poultry farmers are discovering that several species…
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Ask a master gardener: What to do with all that poo?
If you raise chickens, then you know that while they are laying baskets of farm fresh eggs and amusing you with their antics, they are also generating a…
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Electric fencing offers protection for chickens
Keeping a small flock of chickens at home to provide eggs and meat has become increasingly popular, but many first-time small-scale poultry farmers are discovering that several species…
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Faith Gong: Why keep a garden, chickens, or children?
This will likely be a short column, because we are in the midst of putting in our garden. I have a complex relationship with my garden — as,…
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Electric fencing prevents poultry predators
UNDERHILL — Keeping a small flock of chickens at home to provide eggs and meat has become increasingly popular, but many first-time small-scale poultry farmers are discovering that…