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 ...

In part 1 of this 2-part episode of Mother Earth News and Friends, Jeannette Beranger of The Livestock Conservancy chats with us about four of her favorite endangered poultry breeds that are being ...

Hidden in the Dong Tao commune in the Khoai Chau district of Vietnam are chickens that would make any visitor do a double-take. The Dong Tao chicken, otherwise known as the dragon chicken, is an ...

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 ...

Does chicken breed actually matter? In this ultimate taste test, we butcher, cook, and compare every type of chicken we could ...

The contemporary chicken was most probably developed from its main wild ancestor, the red jungle fowl (Gallus gallus), after its domestication in Southeast Asia in 3,200 BC. Over the years, chicken ...

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