To many, a small backyard chicken flock conveys the image of an idyllic urban homestead — the very antithesis of the factory egg farm. But for nearly all backyard hens, life begins the same way it does for factory farmed birds, and it often ends much the same way as well.

New York Times bestselling author and two-time “Oprah” guest Victoria Moran to MC Farm Sanctuary’s Celebration for the Turkeys

Join Gene Baur at the 2013 LA Marathon

Late in the 2012 baseball season, New York Mets relief pitcher Tim Byrdak secretly brought a small feathered newcomer into the clubhouse — a chicken he claimed was sent by the Yankees to taunt Mets teammate Frank Francisco, who had been calling the Yankees “chickens” during a subway series run.

This June, a certain backyard bird feeder in a rural setting near Rochester, New York, attracted some unusual visitors.

For egg-laying hens in commercial production, even those on “free-range” farms, life ends between the ages of one and two years.

Annual summer celebration brings activism, animals, vegan food & fun together Aug. 4 and 5 in the Finger Lakes region of New York

Sports Fans and Locals Speculate at Mets Chicken’s Rapid Rise to Fame

LAPD officers were performing a narcotics bust when they discovered 68 hens teeming with parasites and suffering from untreated wounds.

Farm Sanctuary applauds lawmakers for making Rhode Island the ninth state to pass farm animal protection legislation