In his lab at the University of Edinburgh, Mike McGrew is turning commercial egg-laying hens into surrogates for rare chicken breeds revived from frozen cells—a technique that he hopes one day ...

An important part of beginning your chicken-keeping hobby is choosing which breed of bird to house in your backyard coop.

Now the bird on which the rooster cartoon character was modeled is among 66 types of old-fashioned chickens the American Livestock Breeds Conservancy is trying to save from extinction as factory ...

Here, we examine the use of genetically engineered (GE) sterile female layer chicken as surrogate hosts for the transplantation of cryopreserved avian PGCs from rare heritage breeds of chicken. We ...

Indio Gigante chickens are a massive, rare chicken breed from Brazil, known for their towering height, striking looks, and gentle personality.