Heritage breeders preserve rare poultry breeds for their history, beauty and genetic value, including Minorcas, Dorkings and ...

In his lab at the University of Edinburgh, Mike McGrew is turning commercial egg-laying hens into surrogates for rare chicken breeds revived from frozen cells—a technique that he hopes one day might ...

Keeping chickens can be a fun and rewarding experience. An important part of beginning your chicken-keeping hobby is choosing which breed of bird to house in your backyard coop. Important factors to ...

Owners of rare breeds of livestock and poultry will display their animals at the 33rd annual Rare Breeds Show from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. Sunday, May 19, at Garfield Farm Museum in Campton Hills. This is ...

(MENAFN- GetNews) The Ayam Cemani is one of the most impressive-looking of all poultry breeds. This rare breed of chicken from Indonesia has gained notoriety all over the world for its unique look and ...

Mayo admitted to illegally smuggling 60 Dong Tao chicken eggs and attempting to hatch them at her home in Ingleside, a community in the Corpus Christi area. She told officials all of the chickens that ...

A chicken is a chicken is a chicken, right? Nothing could be further from the truth! For those of you who have lived with poultry in your back yard, whether it was your grandmother’s flock or your own ...

The pictures of dead chickens began to arrive in Lee Grant’s inbox two weeks ago, each of them dropping with an eerie ‘ping’. One showed a twisted pile of a dozen birds on the floor of a barn, next to ...

I got interested in breeds of chickens early in life, while living with my grandmother in the 1940s and early 1950s. She raised chicken in the backyard solely for meat. I was always fascinated by her ...

Chickens have been killed at a Stockport allotment - the second time in six months that birds have been slaughtered. Four birds belonging to Valerie Jobling were killed by an intruder at Whitehill ...