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 ...

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

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 ...

Vietnam has tiny ornamental chickens and extremely rare chicken species which in the past were offered to kings as a tribute. Ga tre Bac, a species of bantam, is hunted by many collectors. They are ...

In 2004 the American Livestock Breeds Conservancy (ALBC) conducted a chicken census. The results were astounding: of 70 chicken breeds maintained in the United States, half were endangered and 20 were ...

A father and his young daughter have started the ambitious project of saving and preserving rare breeds of chickens on their Victorian farm. Anna Houlahan reports on crime and social issues affecting ...

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 ...

"Every variety of fowl in the world comes from one," says breeder of rare chooks, Peter Shands. He's pointing at a Partridge Wyandotte Bantam rooster, a bird he's preparing for exhibition. "This fella ...

FRESNO, Calif. -- 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 cartoon ...