EditorialJennifer Wilcox checks in on her Silkie chickens in their coop at her home in Philadelphia on May 1, 2022.(Michelle Gustafson/The New York Times)
EditorialA blossoming tree over a chicken coop in a yard surrounded by floodwaters in Demydiv, a village north of Kyiv, Ukraine, April 24, 2022. (David Guttenfelder/The New York Times)
EditorialWahdat sifts through the ruins of an abandoned military outpost for materials to build a chicken coop at his family’s nearby farm, along Highway 1, near Sheikhabad, Afghanistan, Dec. 8, 2021. (David Guttenfelder/The New York Times)
EditorialKillian Johnson, 8, and his dog Jackson try to catch a chicken that strayed too far from the coop, at their home in Freedom, Wyo., Aug. 8, 2021. (Ryan Dorgan/The New York Times)
EditorialKillian Johnson, 8, and his dog Jackson try to catch a chicken that strayed too far from the coop, at their home in Freedom, Wyo., Aug. 8, 2021. (Ryan Dorgan/The New York Times)
EditorialAmy Annelle’s chicks live in a temporary housing bin while she builds a permanent coop in Austin, Texas, March 26, 2020. (Eli Durst/The New York Times)