As consumer interest in heritage-breed meats grows, more companies are looking to get in on the market—especially when it comes to chicken. Expand your understanding of food systems as a Civil Eats ...

Heritage chicken and cattle breeds are generally better suited to small-scale homesteads than many modern livestock breeds. Their tendency to be dual- or even triple-purpose breeds is a noted plus for ...

Boasting impossibly long legs, small firm breasts and minimal fat, heritage chickens are like the runway models of the poultry world. They cost a lot of money and require special treatment. So why ...

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-, ...

LINDSBORG — When Matt Hemmer was a kid, he would help his dad with the cattle on their family farm in North Dakota. But when Hemmer turned 11, his dad sold the land and moved to Kansas to start a ...

You might have heard of pork sourced from rare breed pigs, but what about the equivalent in the chicken industry? White-feathered broilers dominate the Australian chicken meat industry, but numbers of ...

Not all turkeys are headed for Thanksgiving tables. Tom, all 20-plus pounds of him, will spend the holiday strutting around a pen he shares with several breeding hens. Other turkeys in a nearby pen ...

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 ...

BARRED PLYMOUTH ROCK: A fowl with a striking black-and-white feather pattern, the Barred Rock is yellow-skinned and lays brown eggs. It is the first breed to be exhibited in a poultry show. It was ...