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

FRESNO, Calif. (AP) — At about the time Foghorn Leghorn appeared on the Looney Toons drawing board in 1946, he began disappearing from America’s dinner tables. Now the bird on which the rooster ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...