Cooks Venture's breed, the Pioneer, a three-way cross between a Heritage Transylvanian Naked Neck, a Delaware, and a proprietary Peterson family line from the 1930s, scored high for animal welfare, ...

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 ...

As poultry companies weigh cost and efficiency with higher animal welfare standards, research comparing conventional and slow-growing broiler breeds showed that the slow-growing chickens displayed ...

A new study examines the historical and genetic origins of the White Plymouth Rock chicken, an important contributor to today's meat chickens (broilers). Researchers at Uppsala University in Sweden, ...

Ducks can be prolific layers. Choose the best heritage poultry breeds: chicken, discover a duck, get a gaggle of geese, or take home some turkeys. Poultry are among the most diverse and useful animals ...

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 ...

Barred Plymouth Rock chickens are calm birds that are adaptable to many environments. The Barred Plymouth Rock chicken breed is well known as a strong dual-purpose chicken, as they are a good poulty ...

The firm has been given the green light to market its Ranger Gold and Ranger Classic breeds under the RSPCA Assured scheme – the only UK farm assurance scheme solely focused on farm animal welfare.

NEW DELHI: The government has notified ten new livestock and poultry breeds across various states, including buffalo, dogs, goats, ducks, donkeys, pigs, sheep, and yaks. They are now on the list of ...

A new study examines the historical and genetic origins of the White Plymouth Rock chicken, an important contributor to today's meat chickens (broilers). Researchers have used genomics to study breed ...

China has independently developed white-feather broiler breeds, breaking the country's 17-year reliance on imported genetic resources for the chicken. The national committee for livestock and poultry ...