While it grows into a Hy-Line Brown layer chicken, its eggs in turn contain genetic material from the rare breed. When the eggs are fertilized with sperm—frozen or fresh—from a male of the ...

While you may be inclined to begin your chicken-keeping hobby with a more common bird, such as an Australorp or Rhode Island Red, there are many more rare and unique breeds that make equally ...

The move to preserve old-fashioned breeds of chickens might not have the backyard appeal of the Brandywine tomato or the Kentucky Wonder bean. But to gourmets, the idea is growing.

Mark E. Woodcock, Almas A. Gheyas, Andrew S. Mason, Sunil Nandi, Lorna Taylor, Adrian Sherman, Jacqueline Smith, Dave W. Burt, Rachel Hawken, Michael J. McGrew, Reviving rare chicken breeds using ...

Indio Gigante chickens are a massive, rare chicken breed from Brazil, known for their towering height, striking looks, and gentle personality.

Chicken breed numbers have shrunk too, risking rare breeds such as Transylvanian naked neck cockerel bantams. Scott Carter, CC BY-NC-ND It’s hard to overstate how big the increases in production ...