In return, they laid more eggs than I could eat. In summer when insects were their chief diet—ants being plentiful, and ...

Chickens like the Rhode Island Red and Plymouth Rock are famed for their brown eggs. The depth of brown coloring can vary from light to dark chocolate, attributed to the pigment protoporphyrin ...

As autumn set in last year, I thought Esmerelda, at age seven, had entered a well-merited retirement. For nearly six years ...

Markwayne Mullin – like the journalists he “jokingly” threatened a few days ago – may be reminded of a banty rooster, crowing and strutting in a hen yard, and praying the bigger, tougher Rhode Island ...