However, at the Farm Sanctuary headquartered in Watkins Glen, N.Y. -- which operates three shelters on two coasts -- some 225 former backyard chickens are waiting now for new homes, said National ...

The LA SPCA has received 33 chickens so far this year. (David Grunfeld, NOLA.com|The Times-Picayune) Animal shelters and humane societies around the country have been watching the rise of backyard ...

GRASS VALLEY (CBS13) - The popularity of backyard chickens is becoming a real problem, and people are finding out that the work for those eggs isn't all it's cracked up to be. It's already a full ...

Despite visions of quaint coops, happy birds and cheap eggs, the growing trend of raising backyard chickens in urban settings is backfiring, critics say, as disillusioned city dwellers dump ...

Backyard chickens mean super-fresh free-range eggs, ... L.A. Animal Services has about 18 chickens — mostly roosters — available for adoption in its six shelters.

Backyard chickens can be expensive and hard to care for "Besides pot belly pigs, calls for chickens and roosters are the most frequent calls we get," Matt Lieurance, the co-founder of Farm Animal ...

Hundreds of chickens, sometimes dozens at a time, are being abandoned each year at the nation’s shelters from California to New York as some hipster farmers discover that hens lay eggs for two ...

GRASS VALLEY, CALIF.- The popularity of backyard chickens is becoming a real problem, and people are finding out that the work for those eggs isn't all it's cracked up to be, CBS Sacramento reports.