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 ...

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 ...

A rare chicken breed is changing the lives of poor and impoverished people in a conflict-ridden region of India. In the Dantewada district in the central Indian state of Chhattisgarh, the breed is ...

Women sell over 1.5 quintals of chickens for the price of Rs 750 per kg to a Hyderabad company. Tribal women in Chhattisgarh are now earning in lakhs, thanks to a rare breed of black chicken ...

The 19 breeds he raises, which range from the American Bresse to the Tolbent Polish, are sold throughout the U.S. and Canada and often come with waiting lists. Some are so rare that they verged on ...

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 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 ...

A chicken coup: Group seeks to protect rare breeds By ABC News April 24, 2009, 7:31 PM ...

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 ...