What is the best breed of chicken for your farm or homestead? Use our survey results to help you choose the best backyard chicken breeds for eggs, meat, temperament, cold-hardiness and more.

Cold climate: Silkies. Silkies aren’t great at laying eggs (you can expect fewer than 100 a year), but they’re pretty chickens, with gorgeous feathers and a wide range of colorings.

Breeders have developed black varieties of many types of chickens, ... Who knew there were so many black chicken breeds to ..

What Are the Breeds of Black Chickens? There are dozens of types of black chickens that you can add to your flock. Each kind has a unique appearance, benefits, and traits. Black chicken breeds ...

Kenny Coogan: And just like many [00:05:00] domestic animals, people have been domesticating chickens for thousands of years, and we have over 500 breeds can you describe some different types of ...

Whether for consumption of the bird or the eggs it lays, chickens have played a vital role in the survival of humans for ...

Poultry experts share best and popular types, breeds of chickens for KS backyard flocks: Best as pets, for egg production, easy to care for & more.

Dr. Herbert Friedmann (1900-1987), an ornithologist specializing in African and American parasitic birds, stands in Bird Hall in the United States National Museum, now known as the National Museum of ...