Heritage chicken breeds are valued for their ancestry as well as their distinctive physical traits, which make their meat and eggs stand out from conventional poultry products. These in-depth profiles ...

No ordinary chicken dinner, the four-course feast is designed to showcase heritage chickens — rare breeds dating to the 1800s with bucolic-sounding names: Barred Rock, Jersey Giant and New Hampshire ...

LINDSBORG, Kan. - On a bitterly cold February afternoon, a jaunty black-and-white striped Barred Plymouth Rock rooster with a brilliant red comb ruffles his chest feathers and struts across the ...

I miss my chickens. As my wife and I go about relocating to central Arkansas, we gave away our small backyard flock. We especially miss our barred Plymouth Rock rooster Myles, who has awakened us ...