The backyard chicken renaissance lifted off the ground — awkwardly, slightly, like a prairie chicken flapping into a tree — during the pandemic. Food supply lines tapered to a trickle. Anxieties ...
Erik Hyde, Shyanna Robertson and Ethan Priefert work together to pluck a chicken as Grace Fritz, supervisor of stagecoach operations and agriculture at Mahaffie, watches. Beth Lipoff Special to The ...