Java chickens are about as close to the original domesticated chicken as you can get. However, the pressures of industrial agriculture have pushed the breed close to extinction. I drive backward in ...

Last July 22, the Museum of Science and Industry’s perennially popular egg incubator hatched something totally unexpected: two oddly colored chicks from a breed of chickens that had been extinct for ...

In this episode of Mother Earth News and Friends, editor Jessica Mitchell sits down for a chat with Chrisie DiCarlo and Holly Callahan-Kasmala, two best friends who are living out the chicken-keeping ...

EAGLE, Wis. - The spring season kicks off at Old World Wisconsin in Eagle with new attractions. Those attractions include a new Wagon Works attraction, the addition of the rare heritage breed Java ...

When Abraham Lincoln passed farmyards on horseback as a circuit-riding lawyer in Illinois in the 1840s and 1850s, many of the chickens he saw pecking and clucking around barns and houses likely were a ...

The contemporary chicken was most probably developed from its main wild ancestor, the red jungle fowl (Gallus gallus), after its domestication in Southeast Asia in 3,200 BC. Over the years, chicken ...