For almost 100 years, hen ownership has been restricted in one way or another in the Houston area, dating back to an ordinance forcing Heights residents to keep hens in their coops. But for the past few months, a group calling itself Hens For Houston has been working to ease the current city ordinance, which [...]
Chooks must be less fun than newspapers. And journalists must be much better company. how else to explain why Australia’s chicken king Bob Ingham is packing it in and selling the farm at the tender age of 80, while Rupert Murdoch is still going strong at 81? And how else to explain why none of [...]
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(RNN) – Dr. George Murray Levick holds the distinction of being the only person in history to observe an entire breeding cycle in the Antarctic – and apparently, he saw more than he wanted. Newly uncovered documents that are part of an exhibit at the Natural History Museum have revealed Levick's thoughts on the Adelie [...]
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FORT WORTH, Texas – There is a rather ordinary, uninspiring piece of land on the outskirts of Waxahachie, a blue-collar countryside in Northeast Texas whose name has been loosely translated as a Native American term for cow manure. Drive past and you wouldn’t even give it a second look, just a desolate field on an [...]
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Editor’s Note: a bonus Nell Dikeman column is made possible by Leap Year. 100 YEARS AGO (1912) A farmer was in one of the poultry houses in the city the other day inquiring about the prices being paid for chickens. He told the poultry dealer he had some 400 hens for sale and drifting in [...]
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SONIA GERKEN SONIA GERKEN/FAIRFAX NZ NO OLD BOILER: This bantam cross is at least 12 years old but has still managed to hatch clutch of three eggs this month. SONIA GERKEN/FAIRFAX NZCLUCKY: Semi-retired farmer George Mills reckons his bantam-cross hen is no old boiler. Aged at least 12 years, she still has the maternal instinct, [...]
It has been a hell of a millennium so far for Superhero movies after a less than impressive 1990s and, quite frankly, a downright embarrassing 1980s. should we even mention the 70s or 60s? we as a species have finally figured out how to make awesome movies with super-powered heroes and villains. thanks be to Galactus. [...]
WHITE PLAINS, N.Y. (AP) — A new Tappan Zee Bridge would be built to last more than 100 years and would include space that could eventually be used for commuter trains or other mass transit, a new planning document shows. The existing bridge, spanning the Hudson River between Westchester and Rockland counties in New York [...]
The children looked intently at the geese, chickens, wildturkeys and ducks. They were fascinated by a chance to stand nextto the birds. the poultry were in cages, but this wasn’t a zoo. The birds were for sale by Harr Family Farms, which occupies acouple of stalls at the Soulard Farmers Market. the noisy fowl drewa [...]
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