Java chickens are about as close to the original domesticated chicken as you can get. However, the pressures of industrial agriculture have pushed the breed close to extinction. I drive backward in ...

Last July 22, the Museum of Science and Industry’s perennially popular egg incubator hatched something totally unexpected: two oddly colored chicks from a breed of chickens that had been extinct for ...

In this episode of Mother Earth News and Friends, editor Jessica Mitchell sits down for a chat with Chrisie DiCarlo and Holly Callahan-Kasmala, two best friends who are living out the chicken-keeping ...

EAGLE, Wis. - The spring season kicks off at Old World Wisconsin in Eagle with new attractions. Those attractions include a new Wagon Works attraction, the addition of the rare heritage breed Java ...

When Abraham Lincoln passed farmyards on horseback as a circuit-riding lawyer in Illinois in the 1840s and 1850s, many of the chickens he saw pecking and clucking around barns and houses likely were a ...