Photo Caption: Margot, the Wellsummer, went through an ugly molting season. (Journal photo by Lacey Vilhauer.) It’s fall, and your chicken coop looks like a massacre happened inside with the number of ...

No one ever said chickens were particularly smart or practical. Case in point: It's the middle of winter, temperatures are dipping down into the teens at night, and these birdbrains are molting. Yes, ...

Unless you keep chickens yourself, you may not know that eggs are a seasonal food. Spring and summer produces abundant eggs while production tapers off in fall while chickens go though their annual ...