Here's why eggs come in different colors, and what it means for nutrition and cooking.

For example, Martha's beloved Araucana chickens carry a specific gene that enables them to lay beautiful blue and green eggs. Alternatively, the Rhode Island Red breed of hen lays brown eggs due ...

It seems this is how the breed got it name, Araucana. In the year 1560, missionaries made reference to Indians keeping chickens that laid colored eggs. Bonnington Moubray wrote of the chickens in ...

When it comes to poultry, many people are familiar with the terms "rooster" and "hen." Although both are members of the chicken family, they serve different roles within their species and display ...

The long-time rival Black Bears gave the Blue Hens quite a test, keeping the football game close well into the fourth quarter. But Delaware took charge then, when it mattered most, and scored a ...

MADISON – Nearly 200,000 chickens raised in Wisconsin for meat were given away by farms after a Minnesota meat company went bankrupt and failed to pay for transport to processing companies and ...

Joyce Hens Green, who helped blaze a trail for women in the law while serving as a Washington attorney and federal judge, presiding over high-profile cases involving the BCCI bank fraud scandal ...

The henitentiary at HMP Edinburgh, as the hen set-up is affectionately known, was created in 2014, the brainchild of a poultry-keeping prison officer. His hen keeping hobby began when his wife ...

An estimated 1.6 to 1.8 million chickens have been quarantined and are in the process of being killed, according to state veterinarian Daniel Christensen, who said this is the biggest outbreak the ...