Java chickens are about as close to the original domesticated chicken as you can get. However, the pressures of industrial agriculture have pushed the breed close to extinction. I drive backward in ...

Last July 22, the Museum of Science and Industry’s perennially popular egg incubator hatched something totally unexpected: two oddly colored chicks from a breed of chickens that had been extinct for ...

The importance of breeding heritage breed chickens to ensure the birds retain their historically beneficial traits is outlined in the article Heritage Chicken Breeding: Why Not to Rely on Chicken ...

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 ...