A good choice for both egg laying and meat production, this heritage poulty breed chicken traces its heritage to the Orpington, bred in the village of the same name in Kent by William Cook in the ...

BONAPARTE, Iowa (AP) - A hen in southeast Iowa has provided its owner with a prize he calls "egg-normous." It's a 4.1-ounce beauty that's about twice the size of large eggs sold by the dozens in ...

Peter D'Arcy does not care for the eggs of these Australorp chooks, even though the Australian breed became the world's best layers. Look at that 12-month-old rooster at right.