As consumer interest in heritage-breed meats grows, more companies are looking to get in on the market—especially when it comes to chicken. Expand your understanding of food systems as a Civil Eats ...

Though all chickens are descended from the red junglefowl (Gallus gallus), in the course of human history different climate and selective breeding have produced a vast selection of shapes, sizes and ...

Frank Reese started strategizing about ways to train his successors about 25 years ago. The fourth-generation Kansas poultry farmer had seen the industry begin to consolidate and he worried about ...

A water bottle provides clean water and entertainment. I’ve raised chickens off and on over the past 20 years. Over that time, I’ve learned a lot. I’ve worked hard to figure out a way to make the ...

Shannin Rettig enjoys raising all types of chickens. She especially loves seeing the different-colored eggs they produce. Along with the standard white and brown, her heritage birds lay dark brown-, ...

Green Zebras, Mexico Midgets, and Wapsipinicon Peaches all have something in common—and it’s not just their bizarre names. Each is a type of heritage tomato. And they’re all raised by Raechel Murphy, ...

We slaughtered three chickens. Two of them were conventional chickens from a factory farm, and one of them was a heritage-breed chicken raised by a farmer named Frank Reese. The two factory-farmed ...

Have you ever seen the bumper sticker “My Pet Makes My Breakfast” and wished you could step into the backyard for some fresh eggs? Thanks to a collaboration of Dryden organizations, this wish will ...

Not all turkeys are headed for Thanksgiving tables. Tom, all 20-plus pounds of him, will spend the holiday strutting around a pen he shares with several breeding hens. Other turkeys in a nearby pen ...

CHICAGO & MILLTOWN, Ireland--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Ocean Harvest Technology Ltd, a global company producing animal feed ingredients centered on the natural bioactive properties of seaweed, to introduce the ...