The staggering costs of eggs — up nearly 37% from last year, according to the Consumer Price Index — is driving people to consider backyard flocks. Stacey Leasca is an award-winning journalist with ...

Childhood visits to my grandparent’s farm served to foreshadow raising chickens of my own. Tossing seed corn, herding a mean rooster to the coop, and reaching under a hen to gather a warm egg were ...

That's right. You can take a chicken home and have them lay eggs for you. But where in Texas do you find such a thing? Experts say bird flu plays a large part in the price of eggs. Over the past three ...