Thinking about backyard chickens as egg prices soar? Think hard, especially in light of the bird flu outbreak. Keeping home chickens as a pastime has continued to grow since the pandemic. But if eggs are the goal,

With the price of eggs soaring, more people are looking into keeping backyard chickens. It's a pastime that grew with the pandemic and has continued ever since.

Eggs are a menu staple at Ants Pants Cafe in Graduate Hospital. Customers scarf them down in hashes with Italian sausage, in breakfast burritos with ground sirloin, and atop smoked salmon and hash browns with hollandaise sauce.