Barred Plymouth Rock chickens are calm birds that are adaptable to many environments. The Barred Plymouth Rock chicken breed is well known as a strong dual-purpose chicken, as they are a good poulty ...

A poultry agronomist feeds his broiler chicken. Farmers must ensure a regular check on their chicken. PHOTO/MICHEAL KAKUMIRIZI. Broilers are the ultimate money-spinning business over a short period ...

Aviagen and Cobb raise a small number of purebred chickens, then cross and recross their bloodlines for three generations.

To understand how this is going to work, it helps to know a little bit about how chickens are raised now. In the United States—in fact, in most of the world—the birds that become chicken meat grow ...

The huge increase in growth rates of broiler chickens means more than a quarter of these intensively-reared birds have difficulty walking, according to a comprehensive survey. The study identifies a ...

The National Animal Genetic Resources Centre and Data Bank (Nagrc&DB) has commenced conserving and improving indigenous chicken species for purposes of yielding stocks in the form of indigenous layers ...