From egg production (spoiler alert: No chicken lays eggs every day) to regal plumage, these nine types of chickens are among the most prized varieties of backyard hens. Whether you are looking for the ...

Like all chickens, fluffy chickens will provide you with delicious eggs, companionship, and entertainment. However, they also have the added benefit of being extra soft and cuddly. In fact, these ...

Catie Leary writes and curates visual stories about science, animals, the arts, travel, and the natural world. If you can’t get enough omelettes or you want to make a little extra cash selling eggs to ...

Eric Stromberg: [00:00:00] A few reasons to keep roosters on the farm. Some people like the actual noise that they crow and they make a lot of people will keep a rooster as kind of that first line of ...

Baby chicks including Black Australorps, Rhode Island Reds and Buff Orpingtons huddle next to each other for warmth in their brooding pen. Kelly Rausch File photo With the rise in the price of eggs, ...

I got interested in breeds of chickens early in life, while living with my grandmother in the 1940s and early 1950s. She raised chicken in the backyard solely for meat. I was always fascinated by her ...

Have you ever wondered how some chickens thrive in freezing temperatures while others struggle to stay warm? If you live in a colder region, choosing the right poultry breeds can make all 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-, ...

Herine Omenda, a farmer attends to a section of her poultry at her Mixa farm in Rabuor village, Kisumu county. [Denish Ochieng/ Standard] Commercial poultry production in Kenya dates back to 1970s. It ...

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 ...