Whether for consumption of the bird or the eggs it lays, chickens have played a vital role in the survival of humans for ...

From wild nests to the Auckland Zoo, the rarest bird in New Zealand just wrapped up its breeding season — and it was a ...

People shifted to chicken as their primary source of meat due to the national shortage of beef,” Murishi explains. “Since ...

Uganda’s poultry population is estimated at 47.6 million chickens, with 87.7 percent being free-range local breeds. However, commercial poultry farming using exotic breeds is growing rapidly ...

The strange reproductive habits of a large, carnivorous New Zealand snail were once shrouded in mystery. Now, footage of the snail laying an egg from its neck has been captured for the first time.

The miracle of life can be majestic at times. Other times, it’s an incredibly rare snail in New Zealand having kids out of its neck hole. In a first, officials at New Zealand’s Department of ...

This rare moment captured a chicken casually laying an egg while strolling through a garden. Jade Horsley, 34, was following her chicken Hennifer Lopez after suspecting the bird had been hiding ...

This rare moment captured a chicken casually laying an egg while strolling through a garden. Jade Horsley, 34, was following her chicken Hennifer Lopez after suspecting the bird had been hiding eggs ...

As Pakistan grapples with rising food costs and continued dependence on imported poultry breeds, the new chicken breed named UniGold that lays over 200 eggs a year—nearly three times more than ...

While native hens typically lay only 70–80 eggs annually, UniGold hens can produce between 179 and 212 eggs per year, with an average egg weight of approximately 52 grammes, a 25% increase over ...

Chicken breed numbers have shrunk too, risking rare breeds such as Transylvanian naked neck cockerel bantams. Scott Carter, CC BY-NC-ND. It’s hard to overstate how big the increases in ...