The Rhode Island Red was developed not by fanciers but by poultry farmers in the area of Little Compton, Rhode Island, beginning about 1830. From the beginning, the breeders’ goal was a utilitarian, ...

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.

It turns out it’s not a good deal to be a rooster in a hen house. That’s what Bob Stamp, 50, was telling me the other day. He runs a Rhode Island Red egg farm in a state known for founding the breed. ...

The vast majority of states chose pretty little songbirds as their state bird. Massachusetts went with the black-capped chickadee. Connecticut went for the ubiquitous American robin. The Northern ...

A flock of exhibition Rhode Islands Reds, an American heritage breed, was donated to Dallas Heritage Village. The original flock, so-called production Rhode Island Reds, do not look like the RIRs ...