On this Arkansas chicken farm, when the public tour starts at dawn, the doors to the chicken barns are closed to keep out night-time predators. Then, the doors are thrown open and there’s a rush of ...

Herine Omenda, a farmer attends to a section of her poultry at her Mixa farm in Rabuor village, Kisumu county. [Denish Ochieng/ Standard] Commercial poultry production in Kenya dates back to 1970s. It ...

Shannin Rettig enjoys raising all types of chickens. She especially loves seeing the different-colored eggs they produce. Along with the standard white and brown, her heritage birds lay dark brown-, ...

Arkansas farmer converts an old landplane into a mobile chicken coop as part of regenerative farming strategy.

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 ...

Commercial poultry production in Kenya dates back to the 1970s. It is estimated that the poultry population stands at 80 million, with 70 per cent being indigenous backyard flock. The driving factors ...