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  • New Weber's Time to Grill Cookbook Features Time-Saving Recipes and Options for Busy Lifestyles Wednesday, April 13, 2011 @ 12:55PMThe new Weber's Time to Grill: Get In. Get Out. Get Grilling by New York Times best-selling cookbook author and 2010 James Beard Award nominee Jamie Purviance is aimed toward those who love to grill outdoors and might be running against the clock.
  • Talk to focus on raising chickens Thursday, April 7, 2011 @ 12:29AMHOWELL— It wasn’t so long ago that family chicken farms lined Route 9 from Freehold to Lakewood, and the egg business was big business. read more
  • Taking a look back Wednesday, March 30, 2011 @ 8:39AMThe following are excerpts from newspaper files dating back to 1925. March, 1928 – Have you a hobby? If not, then we suggest you start a backyard poultry flock.
  • City chicken flap takes wing Tuesday, November 23, 2010 @ 11:46PMLike, if a small flock of backyard chickens flutters and clucks behind a downtown home for years without ruffling many feathers, are they really even there? In the weeks since a code inspector swooped in on Nov. 3 and directed Guidice and Pursley to relocate eight hens from their backyard coop, they've mounted an impressive multi-media campaign to change the law and public attitudes with an eye ...
  • From the garden to your plate: fresh flavor! Tuesday, July 27, 2010 @ 3:11AMThe latest issue of Backyard Poultry magazine lies on a kitchen countertop in James Laird's pristine Harding Township home. Outside, some 30 chickens noisily cluck while bustling about their coop.
  • Backyard Chickens: More Connecticut Residents Raising Hens At Home Friday, July 16, 2010 @ 9:08AMMore Connecticut Residents Raising Hens At Home Like a fresh egg, Kate's backyard hobby could land her in the frying pan. Under her town's zoning ordinance, keeping live chickens is prohibited — and Kate, an otherwise law-abiding citizen, has a half-dozen hens living in a coop behind her home. "They're so pretty. They look like toddlers wearing rumba pants."
  • Manna Pro Announces New Partnership with The Chicken Whisperer, America’s Go-To Guy for Backyard Flocks and 'All ... Tuesday, July 6, 2010 @ 2:01AMExclusive media partnership will include an “Ask the Chicken Whisperer” feature on the Manna Pro web site, social media events and educational webinars.
  • Michiana residents want rules changed to allow chickens as pets Sunday, June 27, 2010 @ 3:28AMOlivia, Stanley and Henny Penny spend their days roaming around their fenced-in backyard in South Bend. They nibble on grubs in the garden, lay out in the sun, till the soil and then head back to the coop at some point to lay an egg.
  • Chicken Whisperer Visits East Brainerd Road Sonic On July 1 Wednesday, June 23, 2010 @ 6:50PMThe backyard chicken movement is sweeping the nation and Chattanooga is no exception. There are many advantages of keeping a small backyard flock of chickens and you no longer have to live in a farm to benefit from these advantages.
  • Digging up more of Annapolis' past Monday, June 21, 2010 @ 11:39AMArchaeologists have uncovered artifacts - bones, shells, ceramics, nails, glassware and a button from a naval uniform - at the downtown Annapolis home of a man who went from being a slave to serving as assistant to at least eight Naval Academy superintendents.
  • Chooks make a backyard comeback Thursday, June 10, 2010 @ 12:51AMIn the time of our grandparents practically every street had a house or three with a chook shed in the backyard.
  • How Now Joe Brown (June 7) Monday, June 7, 2010 @ 12:00AMI subscribed to a magazine called Backyard Poultry just out of curiosity and learned there are plans for hundreds of tiny henhouses for three to four chickens on up to 20 to 25 hens.
  • Urban chicken owners face predictable problem in Berkeley Tuesday, April 27, 2010 @ 2:45AMLance Williams Raising chickens in the metropolis has its challenges. Consider this poster on a telephone pole in the heart of Berkeley’s pricey Elmwood District. Ashby Avenue is a state highway, often gridlocked, so the chicken is lucky somebody intervened before it tried to cross the road. The urban chicken movement is a nationwide phenomenon, and it evokes real passion amongst devotees, as ...
  • In Berkeley, urban chicken movement encounters predictable problem Tuesday, April 27, 2010 @ 2:15AMLance Williams Raising chickens in the metropolis has unexpected challenges. Consider this poster on a telephone pole in the heart of Berkeley’s pricey Elmwood District. Ashby Avenue is a state highway, often gridlocked, so the chicken is lucky somebody intervened before it tried to cross the road. The urban chicken movement is a nationwide phenomenon, and it evokes real passion amongst devotees ...
  • Chickens Aren't Just for Farms Anymore; Purina Mills Announces 2010 Great Starts(TM) Program and Andy Schneider ... Tuesday, March 16, 2010 @ 4:37PMST. LOUIS, MO--(Marketwire - March 16, 2010) - With the popularity of poultry raising from farms to backyards sweeping the nation, Land O'Lakes Purina Feed announces the 2010 Great StartsT Program, a program focused on healthy starts for the many baby animals that herald the coming of Spring. Land O'Lakes Purina Feed is especially pleased to be working with Andy Schneider, "The Chicken Whisperer ...
  • Chickens Aren't Just for Farms Anymore; Purina Mills Announces 2010 Great Starts(TM) Program and Andy Schneider ... Tuesday, March 16, 2010 @ 4:32PMST. LOUIS, MO--(Marketwire - 03/16/10) - With the popularity of poultry raising from farms to backyards sweeping the nation, Land O'Lakes Purina Feed announces the 2010 Great Starts Program, a program focused on healthy starts for the many baby animals that herald the coming of Spring. Land O'Lakes Purina Feed is especially pleased to be working with Andy Schneider, "The Chicken Whisperer," the ...
  • City dwellers raising chickens for fresh, organic eggs Wednesday, March 10, 2010 @ 9:48AMBy Allison Ballard, StarNews Correspondent "They're good for egg production, they're good for insect control, and they good for fertilizer," said Wilmington resident Neal Taylor.
  • Chickens called 'America's coolest new pet,' but not all towns allow them Tuesday, March 9, 2010 @ 12:27AMView full size 03/02/10 DAN GLEITER, The Patriot-News Robin Dunkle feeds her chickens a snack of french fries. Dunkle is part of the growing trend of people who live in residential areas keeping chickens in their yards.
  • From the Monday, March 8, 2010 @ 11:13PMRobin Dunkle lost six chickens last year. They got out and foxes most likely got them, she said. Dunkle has 16 other chickens and about 36 week-old hatchlings in her basement weathering the winter under heat lamps before embarking on their new lives in the backyard.
  • The Essential Resource For Poultry Keepers - BowTie, Inc. Releases Chickens Magazine Tuesday, February 16, 2010 @ 4:12AMBowTie, Inc., the world's largest publisher of pet, animal and lifestyle magazines and websites, is proud to announce the release of the premiere issue of Chickens® magazine, the essential resource for poultry keepers
  • The Essential Resource for Poultry Keepers - BowTie, Inc. Releases Chickens(R) magazine Wednesday, February 10, 2010 @ 4:00AMBowTie, Inc., the world's largest publisher of pet, animal and lifestyle magazines and websites, is proud to announce the release of the premiere issue of Chickens® magazine, the essential resource for poultry keepers.
  • Thinking Deep: Backyard chickens in Dearborn? Tuesday, January 26, 2010 @ 5:35PMDearborn’s city ordinance allows residents to keep cows, horses, pigs, goats, pigeons, fowl or other harmless domestic pets so long as the homeowner first obtains a permit from the city health officer.
  • Holiday tip: Save your sanity Friday, November 20, 2009 @ 1:06PMI know what you all are thinking right now. The economy stinks and the daily news stresses you out.
  • Chicken Whisperer Shares Poultry Raising Secrets on 2010 National Tour Thursday, November 19, 2009 @ 10:46AMATLANTA----Chickens aren’t just for farms anymore, and the Chicken Whisperer, Andy Schneider, is spreading the word with his 2010 Chicken Whisperer National Tour. Schneider is an expert in helping people raise their own flocks and hosts the nationally broadcast radio show “Backyard Poultry with the Chicken Whisperer.”
  • St. Louis Mayor Francis Slay's staff adds youth, loses experience Sunday, October 11, 2009 @ 3:26AMOct. 6, 2009 - Patrick Brown, 24, of St. Louis a Community Works Leasion. Brown has been with the mayors office since June of this year. Here brown attends a press conference with Kathleen Sebelius Secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services at Saint Louis University.
  • Fair poultry winners announced Sunday, September 6, 2009 @ 4:14AMThe Central States Fair poultry barn was stuffed with more than 300 entries representing about 50 breeds this year.
  • Bill Morem: A passion most fowl Thursday, July 2, 2009 @ 11:51AMLet’s talk chickens for a minute, or at least cast a light on one of the world’s foremost writers about chickens, according to the pecking order of those who pen poultry prose.
  • Celebrate Summer With Country Living Monday, June 15, 2009 @ 6:00AMThe magazine that encourages its readers to celebrate the joys of outdoor entertaining now offers products that make it easy for readers to create a unique experience in their own backyard.