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 ...

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 ...

What is the Ayam Cemani? The Ayam Cemani is a unique breed of chicken. If you’ve researched chicken breeds, then you’ve likely come across photos of this rare chicken. The breed is fairly new to the U ...

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 ...

If you're the type of person who still can't get over the fact that dinosaurs are extinct, have we got a pet for you! Indio Gigante chickens are a massive, rare chicken breed from Brazil, known for ...