Who knew there were so many black chicken breeds to love? The following selections represent just a portion of all the ...

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So why should foodies want to buy them? As with heritage turkeys, these special chicken breeds represent American culinary history. They’re the kind of birds our grandparents likely grew up eating.

In his lab at the University of Edinburgh, Mike McGrew is turning commercial egg-laying hens into surrogates for rare chicken breeds revived from frozen cells—a technique that he hopes one day ...

Now, Myers-Benner, and his family live on 6 acres of land in Keezletown with some unsurprising visitors — dozens of free-range chickens that Myers-Benner breeds. The four different breeds have ...

Another breed, known as the silkie because of its soft, hair-like feathers, also sports hyperpigmented skin and tissues, as do the black H’Mong chickens of Vietnam and the svarthöna of Sweden.

Sabrina Scheerer, of St. George, has about two dozen heritage chickens. She and her kids, who are all in 4-H, keep experimenting with breeds. The Scheerer family, like many others who raise these ...