As long as I’ve been old enough to buy whiskey for myself, my go-to bourbon has been Wild Turkey. I don’t remember exactly how that came to be, but if I was headed to a house party or a basement gig, ...

A few weeks ago, I found myself talking to turkeys. Not talking turkey, mind you. I was talking to some stunning Bourbon Reds with blue snoods, Black Spanish beauties, flashy black-and-white ...

Two young toms tussle, left, as a group of Beltsville Small White Turkeys mill about at Dr. Julie Gauthier's place in Wake Forest recently. Gauthier, a poultry expert, raises and protects rare breeds ...

ROLAND, Ark (Reuters) - P. Allen Smith can talk for hours about saving rare poultry. He also will be eating one of them for Thanksgiving. On his 650-acre Moss Mountain Farm outside Little Rock, Smith ...

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 ...

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 ...

Now known as “heritage turkeys,” many of the ancient breeds almost went extinct in the late 1990s. But those colorful, playful and spritely bird breeds are on the rebound as a small group of niche ...