You might be surprised that some breeds live for many years with proper care. The average chicken will live for anywhere from three to seven years. Why such a wide range? Mostly because there are so ...

POCOMOKE CITY — There is a growing community of Pakistani chicken farmers on the Eastern Shore south of Salisbury. They came for cheap land and an opportunity to grow chickens in state of the art ...

For decades, Marian Breland Bailey and her husbands trained animals for fun and profit and even national security. They ended up revolutionizing the field. It cost 50 cents to challenge the chicken, ...

FRUITA • A fifth-generation farmer is busy tending his fields when he’s asked about the chicken. Again. “Yeah,” Troy Waters says. “Everybody asks me about the chicken.” Only because he’s most familiar ...