A strong dual purpose chicken, the Black Australorp is a fun heritage breed chicken to raise (and to say!). A good choice for both egg laying and meat production, this heritage poulty breed chicken ...

Group of chicken on a farmyard in a village located in Mazowieckie Province of Poland Not long ago, most farms and households in the United States played host to at least a small flock of chickens.

It’s a 4.1-ounce beauty that’s about twice the size of large eggs sold by the dozens in supermarkets. After it was laid Feb. 18 by an Australorp hen, 37-year-old Nathan Batten carried the egg around ...

Not unreasonably, our new landlord has a chicken clause on the lease of her inner-city pad and so it was time to billet the girls, for good. Duster, Beauty and Scarlet: a Buff Orpington, an Australorp ...

BONAPARTE, IowaBONAPARTE, Iowa — A hen in southeast Iowa has provided its owner with a prize he calls “egg-normous.” It’s a 4.1-ounce beauty that’s about twice the size of large eggs sold by the dozen ...

BONAPARTE, IA It's a 4.1-ounce beauty that's about twice the size of large eggs sold by the dozen in supermarkets. After it was laid Feb. 18 by an Australorp hen, 37-year-old Nathan Batten carried the ...