An initiative in Zambia is showing that a profit-seeking company can help rural farmers battling extreme weather breed chickens that lay more eggs.

By Harold Brummett Star Denmark Route There are four roosters on our farm. Lots of hens and four roosters. The chickens ...

ORLAND — A serendipitous conversation at their local feed store sparked the entrepreneur spirit in two local kids, who with a little help from mom and dad, have started their own chicken business ...

It took thousands of years to develop the world's extraordinary range of domesticated farm animals—an estimated 8,800 ...

Rotisserie chicken is often cited as an easy and quick option for delicious protein. But how healthy is it? A pre-cooked, pre-seasoned, packaged and plentiful source of protein sounds like a ...

“I think the silver lining in all of this is, how do we, in our backyards—we’ve got chickens too in our backyard—how do we solve for something like this? And people are sort of looking ...

Adopting/developing the surrogate host technology for the conservation of indigenous chicken genetic resources and dissemination of elite breeds (a- Developing and breeding the surrogate breeding ...

It was nearly two years ago when Angelia Taylor first heard about owning backyard chickens online. “Honestly, I was seeing it all over Facebook,” Taylor, of Camden County, New Jersey ...

AZ Animals is a growing team of animals experts, researchers, farmers, conservationists, writers, editors, and -- of course -- pet owners who have come together to help you better understand the ...

In breed-specific CNVRs, some valuable genes were identified ... Moreover, CSMD1 and NTRK3 with high duplications found exclusively in White Leghorn chicken, and POLR3H, MCM9, DOCK3, and AKR1B1L found ...

We do not know how piRNAs co-evolve with TEs in chickens. Here we reported that all active TEs in the chicken germ line are targeted by piRNAs, and as TEs lose their activity, the corresponding piRNAs ...