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The New Hampshire Chicken is a heritage poultry breed that lays beautiful, large eggs and grows to a pleasant size for mid-scale meat production. This successful dual-purpose bird was developed in ...

AUSTIN, Texas--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Global Animal Partnership (G.A.P.) is working to positively impact the welfare of the millions of chickens raised each year through its Better Chicken Project. The ...

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 ...

Rosie Whittle, a poultry science postdoctoral fellow with the Center for Animal Food Wellbeing and the Dale Bumpers College of Agricultural, Life, and Food Sciences, worked on a study examining ...

A farm of Guangming 2, a domestic white-feather broiler breed, in Mile, Yunnan province. [Photo provided to China Daily] China has independently developed white-feather broiler breeds, breaking the ...

Lameness in the broiler breed of chicken is a fundamental animal welfare issue in the poultry meat industry. Of the five animal freedom needs, the right to protection against pain, suffering, injury, ...