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

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 ...

Greenfire Farms is a poultry breeding facility located in Havana, Florida. They specialize in rare chicken breeds and color varieties from around the world. I was interested in visiting the hatchery ...

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 ...

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 ...

The United Kingdom’s leading rural insurer, NFU Mutual, tells Farmers Weekly that as part of its annual survey in rural crime, it has identified a rise of thefts of exotic chicken breeds, including ...

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 ...

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 ...

The pictures of dead chickens began to arrive in Lee Grant’s inbox two weeks ago, each of them dropping with an eerie ‘ping’. One showed a twisted pile of a dozen birds on the floor of a barn, next to ...

Our family farm grows organic apples, grapes, and berries. We also house and feed 60 chickens who give us beautiful eggs in return. These Swedish Flower Hens were almost extinct when, in 2010, ...