Cynthia Gill's bird barn is hallowed ground. Strangers aren't allowed inside, and she only visits to feed and check on her 97 birds when she absolutely needs to. Because breeding birds is tricky ...

Surrounded by brilliant blue, green and gold exotic birds, Lockport-area breeder Ernst Neumann, 57, finds he can focus only on the glaring red of overdue bills littering his home. He says he never ...

“If these chickens could vote, they’d want to be here, not at Foster Farms,” Arlin Strange says as a few hundred members of the putative electorate mill about his feet. “Here they’re guaranteed two ...