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 ...

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Electric fencing is simple to set up and will help to discourage predators. Permanent chicken houses and fenced runs are wonderful if you have the space and the means to keep them clean, compost the ...

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HAYWARD — Three chickens hunted and pecked at the ground as they wandered around Deborah Johnson’s suburban backyard, a scene becoming so familiar in Bay Area neighborhoods that ready-made coops are ...