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 ...

Take a tour of Gold Shaw Farm to discover some of the most unusual and rare chicken breeds currently living on the homestead.

Raising backyard chickens has exploded in popularity in recent years. Many people are building chicken coops to save money on ...

Keeping chickens can be a fun and rewarding experience. An important part of beginning your chicken-keeping hobby is choosing which breed of bird to house in your backyard coop. Important factors to ...

When it comes to the world of chickens, some breeds are more readily available than others, and this tends to be a problem. As numbers of more unique breeds run thin, there is the very real threat ...

Hens that do not produce their own chicks have been developed for use as surrogates to lay eggs from rare breeds. The advance—using gene-editing techniques—could help to boost breeding of endangered ...

Hens that cannot produce their own chicks have successfully acted as “surrogates” to lay eggs from rare chicken breeds. It is hoped the development could help to boost breeding of endangered birds and ...

In his lab at the University of Edinburgh, Mike McGrew is turning commercial egg-laying hens into surrogates for rare chicken breeds revived from frozen cells—a technique that he hopes one day might ...

Red Junglefowl - Gallus gallus tropical bird in the family Phasianidae. It is the primary progenitor of the domestic chicken (Gallus gallus domesticus).© Martin Pelanek/Shutterstock.com Everyone has ...

Manama, Dec. 12 (BNA): The Bahrain International Exhibition “Mara’ee 2025” continued its activities on the fourth day at the Bahrain International Endurance Village in Zallaq, attracting strong public ...

Hens that do not produce their own chicks have been developed for use as surrogates to lay eggs from rare breeds. The advance -- using gene-editing techniques -- could help to boost breeding of ...