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 ...

Off a long dirt road in Havana surrounded by forest is a treasure trove of chickens. Yes, you read that right. GreenFire Farms is run by Tallahassee-based Paul Bradshaw, a local lobbyist. He breeds ...

Kenny Coogan: [00:00:00] One of the interesting facts about the history of that breed is that the US Department of Agriculture Research Center at Beltsville, Maryland developed that breed over seven ...

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 ...

The Federal University of Agriculture, Abeokuta (FUNAAB) recorded a breakthrough in poultry research last week with the registration of a new local poultry breed. However for the breed, which took ...

When it comes to the world of chickens, some breeds are more readily available than others, and this tends to be a problem. As numbers of more unique breeds run thin, there is the very real threat ...

MONTICELLO — "No breed of chicken less than 200 years old is worth keeping." That's the motto of Craig Russell, the country's leading expert on the history and husbandry of what are now called ...

Hens that do not produce their own chicks have been developed for use as surrogates to lay eggs from rare breeds. The advance -- using gene-editing techniques -- could help to boost breeding of ...

Genetically modified hens that can lay eggs from different poultry breeds are helping create a “frozen aviary” to conserve rare and exotic birds. Like a seed bank for poultry, the aviary will store ...