Commercial poultry production in Kenya dates back to the 1970s. It is estimated that the poultry population stands at 80 million, with 70 per cent being indigenous backyard flock. The driving factors ...

Catie Leary writes and curates visual stories about science, animals, the arts, travel, and the natural world. If you can’t get enough omelettes or you want to make a little extra cash selling eggs to ...

It is a new twist on the old question: 'Which came first, the chicken or the egg?' Scientists from Edinburgh's Roslin Institute - who brought us Dolly the first cloned sheep - have come up with a new ...

Smallholder Edward Dickinson is claiming to have created the first new breed of hen for 90 years. Mr Dickinson, who has been keeping poultry for the past two decades, claims his Oakworth Hen has taken ...