Aviagen and Cobb raise a small number of purebred chickens, then cross and recross their bloodlines for three generations.

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 ...

When it comes to breeding a coop of Valheim chickens, it all sounds fairly easy at face value. Incubate eggs, let them hatch, and watch your brood grow. However, before you get too heavily invested in ...

For the last 20 years, Belgian artist Koen Vanmechelen has been selectively breeding chickens from around the world as part of his Cosmopolitan Chicken Project. What started as a way to illustrate ...

As consumer interest in heritage-breed meats grows, more companies are looking to get in on the market—especially when it comes to chicken. Expand your understanding of food systems as a Civil Eats ...

What if, instead of breeding for pure productivity, you bred for teamwork? Breeding Super Teams Muir set up an ...

Conclusive evidence of chicken breeding in the Yayoi period of Japan has been discovered from the Karako-Kagi site. Conclusive evidence of chicken breeding in the Yayoi period of Japan has been ...

Backyards have gone to the birds! With everyone from Jennifer Garner to Carrie Underwood flocking to the trend of raising ...

Everyone has heard the joke, “Why did the chicken cross the road?” But did you ever wonder who the original “chicken” was? All domesticated chickens had to come from somewhere, even the topic of this ...

Created for purely commercial uses, featherless chickens look bizarre, even frightening, but are a low-fat alternative to ...