From egg production (spoiler alert: No chicken lays eggs every day) to regal plumage, these nine types of chickens are among the most prized varieties of backyard hens. Whether you are looking for ...

With so many chicken breeds ... or try two or three breeds each year to find out which one best suits your needs. Breeders and hatcheries select for different traits. For example, some breeders ...

The Ameraucana chicken, which originated in the United States in the 1970s, descended from the Araucana chicken. Ameraucana chickens have muffs and beards, along with relatively short, curved tails.

Woodard said she hasn’t known a chicken breed that’s particularly hard to raise. “It’s just different varieties or different levels of friendliness, and even within every variety ...