Backyard chickens are now America's third most popular pet - here's how to start your own flock from scratch.

No farm? No problem. Here's exactly how to build a chicken coop and raise healthy hens in a regular backyard.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Chickens peck around for food on a farm where they are raised as part of the "Rent The Chicken" service. (PATRICK T.

Following the incident with our hens in the spring, I finally started working on the chicken coop that I had been putting off for so long. Until now, our chickens had been free-ranging in the field ...

I got them all inside, cooing argumentatively, and I shut them away. Come morning, I was out again early to let them out. But here’s the thing. When I went back an hour or two later, I found they had ...