Peter Cortez started raising chickens in his backyard in 2017. His first few years didn’t go so well; it was a learning curve, but he quickly caught on.

Service includes chicken coops with cameras and chicken tenders that check on and feed chickens

San Antonio – What came first -- the chicken or the egg? Across San Antonio, chicks are becoming a hot commodity as more people scramble to try their hand at growing their own chickens for those eggs. It take a little while, but once they start producing, it’s pretty maintenance-free. Rosenthal’s chicks are still producing eggs, but he has a plan if food gets harder to come by. In San Antonio city limits, residents can have up to eight fowl.