Chickens peck at food scraps in a compost pile at Black Dirt Farm, a chicken farm that uses food waste as feed. Photo by Justin Trombly/VTDigger Chicken farmers who also run compost operations say a ...

[W]hen is a chicken farm not a chicken farm? When it is a composting facility, which according to an Agency of Agriculture, Food and Markets memo from March also should be considered a solid waste ...

SEAFORD, Del. — Engineers with Perdue Farms are working on new methods of composting chicken waste in Delaware and on Maryland‘s Eastern Shore that could also control pollution. Perdue officials are ...

MONTPELIER, Vt. (WCAX) - For more than a year, Vermont law has required people to compost their food scraps and there are a growing number of ways to do it. One operation out of Montpelier takes that ...

Are you thinking about raising chickens in your backyard? This presentation will cover the basics of setting up your own backyard flock, including local ordinances, coop designs, feed and watering ...

Chickens contribute to my compost system by providing manure but they are also very willing to help me shred compost material and work it into the pile. In return, they find nutritious and (what they ...

WILLOWS — After hearing complaints from concerned citizens about a proposed chicken manure composting operation Wednesday, the Glenn County Planning Commission instructed planners to consider the ...