With egg prices reaching an all-time high in the US, the idea of backyard chickens — roaming around, grazing on grass, and producing fresh, delicious eggs — is becoming increasingly appealing.

With the price of eggs skyrocketing, some shoppers are considering keeping their own backyard laying hens, but experts say there are drawbacks that may make that chicken coop more expensive than ...

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Peter Cortez started raising chickens in his backyard in 2017. His first few years didn’t go so well; it was a learning curve ...

Are you thinking about backyard chickens as egg prices soar? Think hard, especially in light of the bird flu outbreak. Keeping home chickens as a pastime has continued to grow since the pandemic.

SOME OF THOSE PEOPLE WILL BE LONG TIME CHICKEN OWNERS ... WITH PRICES REACHING ALMOST A DOLLAR AN EGG. INVESTING IN A BACKYARD FLOCK MIGHT ACTUALLY SAVE MONEY IN THE LONG RUN.

But even as disease fears grow, record-high egg prices are spurring people with no experience in raising chickens to start backyard flocks of their own. Infected birds can transmit the virus in ...