The New Hampshire Chicken is a heritage poultry breed that lays beautiful, large eggs and grows to a pleasant size for mid-scale meat production. This successful dual-purpose bird was developed in ...

AUSTIN, Texas--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Global Animal Partnership (G.A.P.) is working to positively impact the welfare of the millions of chickens raised each year through its Better Chicken Project. The ...

Boasting impossibly long legs, small firm breasts and minimal fat, heritage chickens are like the runway models of the poultry world. They cost a lot of money and require special treatment. So why ...

Delaware chickens aren’t an easy-to-find heritage poultry breed, but they make a good homestead livestock choice for anyone wanting to raise free-range chickens for high-quality meat. The lovely ...

Rosie Whittle, a poultry science postdoctoral fellow with the Center for Animal Food Wellbeing and the Dale Bumpers College of Agricultural, Life, and Food Sciences, worked on a study examining ...

A new research has found that contrary to the popular belief, a pathogen called Campylobacter jejuni is not harmless in chicken, and can cause disease in some breeds of poultry. "The main implication ...

A farm of Guangming 2, a domestic white-feather broiler breed, in Mile, Yunnan province. [Photo provided to China Daily] China has independently developed white-feather broiler breeds, breaking the ...

The broiler feeding process is aimed at making sure that the bird, being raised for meat, attains the desired weight at the time of slaughter. According to Dr Ismail Nsubuga, a veterinary adviser at ...

Lameness in the broiler breed of chicken is a fundamental animal welfare issue in the poultry meat industry. Of the five animal freedom needs, the right to protection against pain, suffering, injury, ...

Customs officials check chicks ready to be export at the Pinggu customs in Beijing on June 14, 2023. Photo: Courtesy of Yukou Poultry Co Ltd In the early morning on June 16, 2023, a Tanzania Airways ...