On a quiet stretch of pasture in North Carolina, a former collegiate tennis player named Jack has built a thriving pastured-livestock enterprise from scratch. With no prior farming experience, he ...

I n the beginning, Dale and Paula Boles watched the deliveries with a certain fascination. The chickens came by school bus—fifty thousand of them every nine weeks. Hatchling broilers, often born the ...

Poultry farming can provide income through two main business models—raising chickens for meat and keeping hens for egg ...

The rapid growth of industrial poultry farming over the last century has produced large densely connected flocks of poultry birds. Since the 1960s, the number of chickens has gone up sevenfold to ...