Edible Michiana

Backyard chickens are growing in popularity

• Photo by Grant Beachy

  Prudence, a Silver Laced Wyandotte hen, graces the coop of Nick and Trudi Donovan in Granger, IN.

• Photo by Grant Beachy

• Photo by Grant Beachy

  One of Horst’s chickens looks for food among the weeds.

• Photo by Grant Beachy

  Trudi Donovan holds Poppy, a Barred Plymouth Rock hen, with her son, Sawyer, on the barn porch.

• Photo by Grant Beachy

  Pumpkin, a Buff Orpington hen, considers the steps leading to curtained nest boxes inside the Donovan’s coop.

• Photo by Grant Beachy

  The Donovan’s coop was built with salvaged materials at the shady end of the barn, which is thought to be original to the 19th-century farm. To the right are Trudi and Nick Donovan with their son Sawyer, 5, and daughter Rosalie, 3.