In poultry houses where broiler chickens—birds bred and raised specifically for meat production—are grown, feed is delivered ...

Huaijun Zhou and colleagues at the UC Davis Department of Animal Science have created a catalog of 1.5 million regulatory elements in the chicken genome. The catalog will help scientists and breeders ...

The mountain chicken frog was once so abundant in Dominica, with thousands found across the island, that it became a national delicacy, supposedly tasting of chicken. Now, a new survey has found only ...

For the first time, researchers found that chickens fluff their facial feathers and blush in response to varied stimulation, likely as a way to reveal their inner emotional states. The link could help ...

“Don’t wash your chicken!” This dramatic exclamation punctuated with a sound of shattering glass punctuates each of four short video stories released by food safety researchers. The sound signifies ...

Tom Turpen has been engrossed by eggs since 2019. “The eggshell is just an amazing structure,” he says. “They’re like little high-tech Wiffle balls.” Turpen, the CEO of Sensit Ventures, is referring ...

Geneticists have uncovered new insights into how sex chromosome systems work in the platypus and the chicken — which will lead to better understanding of our own sex chromosome evolution and gene ...