As consumer interest in heritage-breed meats grows, more companies are looking to get in on the market—especially when it comes to chicken. In response, a group of farmers, business owners, and ...

Heritage chicken breeds are valued for their ancestry as well as their distinctive physical traits, which make their meat and eggs stand out from conventional poultry products. These in-depth ...

Heritage Foods, a meat broker largely responsible for the renewed awareness and popularization of heritage meats, recently reorganized its shipping policies to make heritage chicken breeds more ...

They were recognized as a distinct breed in 1935. CORNISH: These birds originated in Cornwall, England. The breed descended from well-muscled fighting chickens native to India.

A heritage breed mates naturally, has a slow growth rate, thrives outdoors and can live a long, healthy life. The animals are antibiotic-free and free-range all the way from hatchling to adulthood.

Heritage chickens, according to the Livestock Conservancy, are birds who have a long lineage in the U.S, are listed with the American Poultry Association before the mid-20th century, have a ...

Sommerlad chicken meat sells for $19.00 per kilogram as a whole bird, significantly more than standard chicken meat prices in the supermarket. But Mr Goldman said while the meat was comparatively ...

Smith keeps scores of chickens at Moss Mountain Farm, as well as geese, ducks, guinea fowl and other farm animals. Some of them are part of Smith's effort to conserve America's early poultry breeds.

Many heritage cattle and chicken breeds work well as homestead livestock. Look through this list to find out if these heritage breeds of egg layers, meat birds, dairy cows and beef cattle could ...