Tove Danovich decided to dabble in backyard chicken keeping mainly for the fresh eggs. But after she spent some time with her new chickens and started learning about the different varieties, her hobby ...

People think they know lots about chickens, and you’d think they would: There are four living chickens for every living person in the world—and since chickens are domestic fowl (a separate subspecies ...

Katie Hitt and her family are renting these chickens for the next year from Four Feathered Hens in St. Louis. Her three young kids have named the birds Hei Hei, Feathers, Sweethearts and Lego Man.

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