backyard flocks
Residential poultry keeping
Backyard flocks are small groups of poultry—usually chickens—kept at home for eggs, meat, or as pets.
The term distinguishes hobby-scale operations from commercial farming: Backyard flocks have become popular in urban and suburban areas.
Owners may keep a dozen hens for fresh eggs without running an agricultural business.
- egg productionCreating ova for consumption
- chickensDomestic fowl for eggs
- feedSupply with sustenance
- ducksWaterfowl or evades
- bantamsUndersized domestic birds
brooding · nesting boxes · dust bath · guinea fowl · heritage breeds · meat production · self-sufficiency · geese · rare breeds · grain · scratch · feed store · urban farming · local ordinances · free-ranging · crowing · coop · chicken wire
- poultrychicken, hen, turkey, duck, goose
- Poultry Farmingducks, geese, duck eggs, goose eggs, duckling
- free-rangefree-range eggs, cage-free, pasture-raised, roaming, chickens
scale of production
backyard flocksfactory farms
Industrial-scale animal production sites
commercial farming · agribusiness · corporate farming · poultry industry · intensive farming