The Attwater’s prairie-chicken is vibrant. Learn more about this Texas native, its mating displays, and conservation efforts ...

The Attwater's prairie-chicken, a critically endangered bird resembling a rabbit, faces habitat loss and population decline in Texas and Louisiana. Once numbering over a million, only a few hundred ...

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 ...

The team has concluded that their ultimate goal is to create a complete gene bank of rare chicken breeds. One important reason for this involves the diversity that they'd bring into the gene pool.

A Texas woman smuggled rare Dong Tao Chickens, known as dragon chickens, worth $2,000 apiece into the United States, federal officials say.

“Thieves are clued up on which birds to target and how much they are worth either for resale or breeding purposes,” Philippe Wilson, vice-chairman of the UK’s Rare Poultry Society, tells the Yorkshire ...

The turkeys subsidized his chickens. He estimated he would need to sell 1,500 chickens every month to break even, but when I met him in 2013, he was managing to sell barely 2,700 a year.

Get to know the Attwater’s prairie-chicken, a vanishing species that appears half rabbit, half ancient deity, in its stunning plumage and theatric courtship rituals.