As my new book shows, they do it primarily for love. Cattle have experienced the highest number of extinctions, with at least 184 breeds lost globally. Of all chicken breeds, one in ten is now extinct ...

I got interested in breeds of chickens early in life, while living with my grandmother in the 1940s and early 1950s. She raised chicken in the backyard solely for meat. I was always fascinated by ...

There are over 200 breeds and hundreds of varieties of purebred poultry. Poultry is also broken into groups — large chickens, bantam chickens and ducks, waterfowl, guinea fowl and turkeys. Each group ...