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 ...

Garfield Farm Museum in Campton Hills invites the community to its 30th annual Rare Breeds Livestock and Poultry Show from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. Sunday, May 22. Admission is $6 or $3 for children younger ...

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 ...