Is it cheaper to raise your own hens for eggs than buy them at the store? Not according to this chicken mom.

As you plan your chicken flock, you, like many others, might want to get chickens that lay different colored eggs. We’re all ...

Keeping chickens: what hens should you buy? Bantam chickens are easy to keep, catch pests and are as good at egg-laying as their full-sized counterparts ...

Many allow hens only. A hen lays about 300 eggs (25 dozen) a year and home-raised ones taste better. The chickens are tastier, too, once you get past that head-chopping thing.

Six chickens is a pretty paltry number of poultry, she said. Some Brookhaven officials agree, and they are considering a plan to relax restrictions on raising chickens in residential areas.