The price of eggs is pushing people towards backyard chickens and the poultry showing community hopes it will revive the ...

All chicken breeds share a common ancestor: the red junglefowl, Gallus gallus. Approximately 8,000 years ago, humans began domesticating and selectively breeding chickens.

Cold climate: Silkies. Silkies aren’t great at laying eggs (you can expect fewer than 100 a year), but they’re pretty chickens, with gorgeous feathers and a wide range of colorings.

For more details, be sure to check out our guide to the best chicken breeds for backyard coops for breakdown of these top breeds by appearance, temperament, and egg production and color.

Beloved as a Thanksgiving meal, the turkey is a somewhat more challenging bird to keep than the more common backyard chicken. Turkeys have higher space requirements than smaller poultry; generally, ...

Having a coop in your backyard is great If you don't want to pay for eggs ever again. Here's what to know before you become a chicken keeper.

Then, after a few years, chickens slow their laying and then stop altogether around age 6 — a process I refer to as “henopause.” Yet they can easily live 12 or more years.

To help those first-time poultry owners the Texas A&M AgriLife Extension Service created the backyard chicken seminar. “What this seminar does is tell you how to do it based upon the research ...

Some backyard chicken owners may have separately found their chickens underperforming, but experts say the issues are unrelated. While feed quality can affect hens’ egg-laying abilities, state ...

CLAIM: Chicken feed companies have altered their products to stop backyard hens from laying eggs and drive up demand for commercial eggs. THE FACTS: U.S. egg prices in grocery stores more than ...