What is the best breed of chicken for your farm or homestead? Use our survey results to help you choose the best backyard chicken breeds for eggs, meat, temperament, cold-hardiness and more.

Different chicken breeds tolerate heat or cold to different extents, so a breed’s climate tolerance is a key consideration. Keep in mind, though, ...

Don’t you just love beautiful black chickens? Breeders have developed black varieties of many types of chickens, some with ...

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

Some breeds need 27 weeks, as opposed to the standard seven weeks, to grow to their full potential. And some studies suggest their lean meat delivers higher levels of protein than industrial chicken.

When you think of chickens, you might picture the classic farmyard rooster — the one that is on all the chicken decor in the house — but there’s an entire world of fluffy chicken breeds out ...

Kenny Coogan: How many chicken breeds are in the APA or the ABA? It’s over 500, maybe 600. Eric Stromberg: I don’t know the exact counts, to be honest That’s a great trivia question.

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 ...