Garfield Farm Museum near Geneva will host a program on backyard chickens Feb. 13. The program will begin at 1 p.m. The workshop will serve as a basic introduction to starting a backyard chicken flock ...

Learn about methods for breeding heritage chickens to achieve a hardy and productive flock designed for the modern homesteader. Many of us who keep backyard flocks are aware that industrial chicken ...

A breeding facility for the endangered Attwater Prairie Chicken has been dedicated at the Johnson Space Center. This unique facility is the result of a unique arrangement between NASA and the Houston ...

Aviagen and Cobb raise a small number of purebred chickens, then cross and recross their bloodlines for three generations. Among the traits the producers want is a low feed-conversion ratio—a measure ...

Kansas will develop a program for breeding lesser prairie chickens in hopes of getting the federal government to back off its listing of the bird as a threatened species, Gov. Sam Brownback announced ...