White leghorn and New Hampshire red chickens were inoculated with purified lipopolysaccharides of 14 serotypes of Pasteurella multocida to determine their ability to produce serotype-specific antisera ...

Boy, I say, boy … . Apologies. I promised my editor this review wouldn’t be written in the voice of America’s most famous rooster, Foghorn Leghorn. The dim-witted fowl isn’t the inspiration behind the ...

Group of chicken on a farmyard in a village located in Mazowieckie Province of Poland Not long ago, most farms and households in the United States played host to at least a small flock of chickens.

The domesticated chicken, Gallus gallus domesticus, is the most numerous domestic animal and a preferred source of animal protein. Chicken domestication has been thought (based on traditional measures ...

With a peck and a scratch, Sunshine, a white leghorn chicken with a bright-red comb jiggling on top her head, rustles and jabs through freshly laid bark in Ron and Gloria Purnell’s back yard.

How long will my pet chicken live? The average life expectancy of a chicken is 6 to 12 years. Generally, the smaller the breed, the longer the birds live. Step aside, cats and dogs. Chickens could be ...

Chickens that chicken out in unfamiliar surroundings may shed light on anxiety in humans, according to research published in the January issue of the journal GENETICS, a publication of the Genetics ...

Despite all that neurotic clucking and scratching, domestic chickens are pretty unflappable. After all, we’ve bred them to be that way, preferring chill chicks to freaked-out fowl. But the behaviors ...