The United Kingdom’s leading rural insurer, NFU Mutual, tells Farmers Weekly that as part of its annual survey in rural crime, it has identified a rise of thefts of exotic chicken breeds, including ...

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Keeping chickens can be a fun and rewarding experience. An important part of beginning your chicken-keeping hobby is choosing which breed of bird to house in your backyard coop. Important factors to ...

Does chicken breed actually matter? In this ultimate taste test, we butcher, cook, and compare every type of chicken we could ...

Off a long dirt road in Havana surrounded by forest is a treasure trove of chickens. Yes, you read that right. GreenFire Farms is run by Tallahassee-based Paul Bradshaw, a local lobbyist. He breeds ...

When it comes to the world of chickens, some breeds are more readily available than others, and this tends to be a problem. As numbers of more unique breeds run thin, there is the very real threat ...

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 might ...

Hens that do not produce their own chicks have been developed for use as surrogates to lay eggs from rare breeds. The advance -- using gene-editing techniques -- could help to boost breeding of ...

Scientists have managed to edit the genome of domestic chickens so that in the future they may be able to lay eggs from different breeds. It is hoped that this could then be used to produce common ...

Rare breeds of chickens could soon come from entirely different types of hens. The University of Edinburgh's Roslin Institute with help from US biotechnology company Recombinetics used gene editing ...

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