Erica Marks was looking to add some baby chicks to the flock of backyard chickens at her Pembroke home this spring, but she had to make a 40-minute drive to Derry Feed & Supply Co. to get them. She ...

More and more people are choosing to keep their own chickens, bypassing the fluctuating cost of eggs and ensuring that the quality of their poultry and eggs are the standards they want them to be.

There’s a run on baby chicks. High egg prices have prompted people to rely less on the grocery stores and instead be more self-sufficient by raising chickens to lay their own eggs at home. But stores ...

CHICAGO -- As Chicago-area shoppers hesitate to reach into grocery coolers when they see the price of eggs, Jim Irwin enjoys going out to his backyard chicken coop on Chicago’s Northwest Side, and ...