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 ...

Kenny Coogan: [00:00:00] One of the interesting facts about the history of that breed is that the US Department of Agriculture Research Center at Beltsville, Maryland developed that breed over seven ...

Off a long dirt road in Havana surrounded by forest is a treasure trove of chickens. Yes, you read that right. GreenFire Farms is run by Tallahassee-based Paul Bradshaw, a local lobbyist. He breeds ...

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 ...

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 ...

Hens that do not produce their own chicks have been developed for use as surrogates to lay eggs from rare breeds. The advance -- using gene-editing techniques -- could help to boost breeding of ...

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 find, from the cheap supermarket Cornish Cross to rare French breeds like ...

Scientists have managed to edit the genome of domestic chickens so that in the future they may be able to lay eggs from different breeds. It is hoped that this could then be used to produce common ...

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Manama, Dec. 12 (BNA): The Bahrain International Exhibition “Mara’ee 2025” continued its activities on the fourth day at the Bahrain International Endurance Village in Zallaq, attracting strong public ...