Barbara Widmayer adjusts a sweater for "Prince Peep," a rooster native to Malaysia, at Fuller Village retirement home in Milton. The sweater was one of many knitted by group of women in the retirement ...

MILTON -- At first, the knitters from Fuller Village thought it was a joke when the idea was hatched to make miniature, fowl-shaped sweaters for the chickens living across the road at the Wakefield ...

MILTON, Massachusetts — Sweaters for chickens? It sounds like a joke, but a plucky group of retirees in suburban Boston has hatched a plan to keep poultry warm during the New England winter. The ...