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- Backyard Poultry becoming popular in Brevard - July 21, 2017
Entrepreneurs hatch hen-rental idea for fans of fresh eggs - (AP News, April 2015)- The Surprising Ways that Chickens Changed the World - (National Geographic, December 2014)
- Can You Raise Backyard Chickens without Changing Your Lifestyle? - (The Allstate Blog, March 2014)
Southeast Texans opting to get eggs in their backyards instead of the grocery stores - (12NewsNow.com, December 2013)All Cooped Up: Chickens are now chic - (Post-Gazette.com, August 2013)Backyard Chickens? A Hard Boiled Assessment - (ABC News, August 2013)Pets That Make You Breakfast - (Peoria Journal Star, August 2013)- Chickens Receive Welcome Reception in Batavia - (Kane County Chronicle, August 2013)
- How Mail-Order Chickens Became a Multimillion-Dollar Adventure - (Entrepreneur.com, May 2013)
- Check Out These Chicks from Holliston - (MetroWest Daily News, March 2013)
Backyard Chicken Farming on the Rise - (SustainableBusiness.com, February 2013)- Backyard Farming Gets Fancy - (Wall Street Journal, January 2013)
- Littleton Man has Radio Show and Talks About Chickens - (WickedLocal.com, January 2013)
Raising Chickens Has Rewards - (Poughkeepsie Journal, January 2013)- Bedford Girl Builds Own Chicken Coop in Her Backyard - (MonroeNews.com, October 2012)
- Urban Chicken Farming Takes Dinner from Backyard to Plate - (WLOX.com, October 2012)
- Ten Realistic Ways to Overcome a Food Crisis - (Rural Living Today, October 2012)
- Why Did the Chicken Cross the Road? To get to Flower Mound and Denton... Maybe - (DallasNews.com, September 2012)
- Chicken Farming Becoming a Backyard Phenomenon - (AikinStandard.com, September 2012)
- Delavan City Council OKs Backyard Chickens - (GazetteXtra.com, August 2012)
- Raising Your Own Chickens in Your Backyard - (WTNH.com, July 2012)
- Tips on How to Start Raising Chickens - (Indianapolis Star, June 2012)
- Chicken Lovers Flock to Sonoma's Tour de Coop - (The Examiner, June 2012)
- Farm Like a Billionaire - Harvest Tax Breaks - (Forbes, June 2012)
- Are Backyard Chickens for You? - (CNN, April 2012)
- Urban Chickens strut their stuff at Austin's Funky Chicken Coop Tour - (The Examiner, March 2012)
- Backyard Chickens OK'd in Concord - (The Union Leader, December 2011)
- Thoughts on idea of urban chickens, Manatee County port tiff, new school board leaders - (Bradenton Herald, November 2011)
- Cluck, Cluck: Populating Your Coop - (SanJuanCapistranoPatch, August 2011)
- Welcome to the Peep Show: The Rise of Urban Chicken Coop Tours - (TakePart, August 2011)
- Move hatched to allow chickens in Crystal Lake - (Chicago Tribune, July 2011)
- The Joy of Chickens - (SanJuanCapistranoPatch, June 2011)
- Raising Chickens For Dummies author Rob Ludlow will never go hungry! (Interview) - (Callisto.fm, May 2011)
- Mr. Media Interviews - Raising Chickens For Dummies author Rob Ludlow will never go hungry! - (blubrry.com, May 2011)
- Urban families raising chickens, other fowl extol benefits of fresh eggs at home - (The Post and Courier, May 2011)
- Backyard Bounty - (Southwest Airlines Spirit Magazine, April 2011)
- TODAY's pets (video) - (MSNBC TODAY show, April 2011)
- Fresno urbanites connect to ag by keeping chickens - (Fresno Bee, April 2011)
- Pets: Raising the roost - (Alive!, March 2011)
- Rob Ludlow: Raising Chickens For Dummies - (BlogTalkRadio, March 2011)
- The chicken coop is the new doghouse - (Sunset Magazine, January 2011)
- Chicken Diapers - (Entrepreneur Magazine, November 2010)
- Cheep Chic - (Parade Magazine, November 2010)
- More families seeking simpler lifestyles - (NewsOK, September 2010)
- Backyard chicken enthusiasts unite - (Seeding Chicago, September 2010)
- 21st-Century Homesteading - (Philadelphia Inquirer, August 2010)
- Finding a niche in the chicken coop - (Inc.com, July 2010)
- Fowl Fans See Golden Eggs in Catering to Pet-Chicken Market - (The Washington Post, June 2010)
- Edible Idaho: The Backyard Chicken Invasion - (NPR, July 2010)
- The Backyard Chicken Invasion - (Northwest Food News, July 2010)
- Postcard from New Tripoli - Pictures - Video - (TIME Magazine, July 2010)
- Raising Chickens in Your Backyard - (Insider Secrets, June 2010)
- Backyard eggs vs. store-bought: They taste the same - (The Washington Post, June 2010)
- Hatching some backyard fun by raising chickens at home - (greenrightnow.com, April 2010)
- Madison couple happy with chickens - (The Janesville Gazette, February 2010)
- Urban chicken ordinance passed by Columbia City Council - (Pitch.com, February 2010)
- Neglect of food sources has the chooks coming home to roost - (Sydney Morning Herald, December 2009)
- Holiday gifts for the backyard chicken keeper - (Examiner.com, December 2009)
- Hens in the hood - (Colorado Springs Independent, November 2009)
- "Backyard chicken" comes back to many American families - (ChinaView.cn, October 2009)
- More and more people are getting into the backyard chicken craze - (TampaBay.com, October 2009)
- Inland residents increasingly raising chickens for eggs and as pets - (The Press-Enterprise, October 2009)
- Backyard Chicken Coop Basics - (BobVilla.com, October 2009)
- Sustainability advocate becoming known around town as the Chicken Lady - (DailyTidings.com, October 2009)
- Fort Collins chicken ordinance spurs few complaints - (coloradoan.com, October 2009)
- More Central Coast residents are raising chickens - (SanLuisObispo.com, October 2009)
- Chick Magnet - (The Saturday Evening Post, October 2009)
- Chickens in the City Raising Hens as Pets - (Santa Barbara Independent, October 2009)
- Community Coup: Chickens Are the New Dog - (The Huffington Post, October 2009)
- A chicken in every backyard? Slowly, Marblehead getting there - (WickedLocal.com, September 2009)
- Cash with cluckers - (DailyPress.com, September 2009)
- Chickens Make Great Pets - and Make You Breakfast! - (PEOPLE Pets, September 2009)
- El Pollo Local - (College Times, August 2009)
- In Portland, urban chickens are old hat - (ABC News, August 2009)
- Keeping Their Eggs in Their Backyard Nests - (New York Times, August 2009)
- Chicken Not-So-Little - (ABA Journal, July 2009)
- Residents push to own backyard chickens - (The Columbia Missourian, July 2009)
- Chickens Roam Their Roosts in Urban Backyards - (Noozhawk, July 2009)
- Chicken 101 - (The Vancouver Courier, July 2009)
- Some City Folk Are Mad as Wet Hens When Chickens Come Home to Roost - (The Wall Street Journal, July 2009)
- In ‘urban chickens,’ some see golden eggs - (TheState.com, July 2009)
- Chicken farming growing trend in suburbia - (nola.com, July 2009)
- Urban chicken farmers gain popularity; East Grand Rapids family enjoys education, fresh eggs - (mlive.com, June 2009)
- Checking out the chicks - (The Economist, June 2009)
- More people are keeping backyard chickens - (The Providence Journal, May 2009)
- Envisioning the End of ‘Don’t Cluck, Don’t Tell’ - (New York Times, April 2009)
- More Suburbanites are Raising Chickens - (U.S. News & World Report, April 2009)
- Chickens given roosts in urban backyards - (USA Today, January 2009)
- Chickens earning their keep in Chicago backyards - (Chicago Tribune, December 2008)
- Urban Chicken Movement Gains Momentum - (WBBM Newsradio, December 2008)
- Backyard chickens find new popularity in suburbia - (LoHud.com, November 2008)
- The New Coop de Ville - The craze for urban poultry farming - (Newsweek.com, November 2008)
- City Chicks - Easy-to-keep animals - (Gazette.com, July 2008)
- City Chickens Range Free - (radio podcast) (National Public Radio, November 2007)
- A Chicken on Every Plot, a Coop in Every Backyard - (New York Times, September 2007)
- Urban Farming: Starting from Scratch - (Register-Guard, April 2004)
- Backyard revolutionaries cluck for poultry rights - (Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, February 2004)
- Neighbors' fuss over woman's chickens - (Monterey Bay Herald, January 2004)
- Chickens give owners plenty to crow about - (Dallas Morning News, January 2004)
- Raising backyard chickens - The Allstate Blog - (The Allstate Blog, March 2014)
- Free-range gardens: Chickens produce companionship, fresh eggs and a potent plant fertiliser - (Los Angeles Daily News, November 2016)
- Backyard Chickens- A Website for Poultry Lovers ... - Mother Earth News (Mother Earth News - April 2017)
- TheEasyGarden.com - A sister site to BackYardChickens.com. Help us build the best Garden Forum on the web.
- SufficientSelf.com - Learn how to become more self sufficient
- BackYardHerdscom - Yup, cows in your back yard!
- Nifty-Stuff.com - A fun hobby site with information about everything from chickens to inkjet printers and LEDs.
- Backyard Poultry Magazine — Dedicated to more and better small-flock poultry. Each issue contains informative articles on breed selection, housing, management, health and nutrition, rare and historic breeds, news and views. plus other topics of interest to promote more and better raising of small-scale poultry.
- Henderson's Chicken Breed Chart - An Alphabetical List of More than 60 Chicken Breeds With Comparative Information
- Urban Chickens - Tales of farming eggs in an urban backyard in Redwood City, California. May you be flooded in eggs, too.
- Merck Vet Manual - Merck online with nice search features
- Hinkjc's Mountain Poultry - Specializing in: Hatching Eggs and Chicks
- HomeGrown - A blog about about home and family, striving to be self-sufficient and much more.
- PoultryHelp.com - A great source for raising poultry
PDF Articles:
- Chicken Questions & Answers (Texas Agriculture Extension Service L-5323)
- Hatching Eggs in the Classroom: A Teachers Guide (Texas Agriculture Extension Service B-5084)
- Pest Control on Poultry Farms (Texas Agriculture Extension Service L-1351)
- The Small Laying Flock (Texas Agriculture Extension Service PS5.250)
