On her picturesque farm in the suburbs of Chicago, Kimberly Henny is used to having visitors drop by to snap up fresh eggs, honey and vegetables. But as concerns over bird flu ripple across the ...

Backyard chickens have gone from fringe hobby to mainstream pet in under a decade. According to the American Pet Products Association, roughly 11 million U.S. households kept them in 2025, nearly ...

CLEVELAND, Ohio -- According to the USDA, Alphainfluenzavirus influenzae, or bird flu, has eradicated more than 13 million chickens nationwide in the past 30 days—and more than 3 million of those are ...

At some point between grocery sticker shock on egg prices and the sudden urge to make sourdough from scratch, backyard chickens became less like something only Ree Drummond would be excited about and ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about commodities through a four-decade lens of experience. The high cost of eggs and the arrival of spring is generating ...

Jennifer Johnson wants to raise chickens – a dream she's had for nearly a decade. Still, it took until early February, after a dramatic spike in egg prices, for Johnson to convince her husband to say ...