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 ...

That’s the theory behind the work of geneticist Carl Schmidt and his team at the University of Delaware, where for the past three years the group of scientists has been busy mapping birds’ genetic ...

Right breeding is a game changer in livestock farming. Selection of healthy chicken is important to ensure a healthy flock with high productivity especially for kienyeji poultry farming. But what are ...

To understand how this is going to work, it helps to know a little bit about how chickens are raised now. In the United States—in fact, in most of the world—the birds that become chicken meat grow ...

Apparently, fat roosters aren't very good at making chicks. The world's largest chicken breeder has discovered that a key breed of rooster has a genetic issue that is reducing its fertility, and ...