One popular dual-purpose breed with blue feathers is the Plymouth Rock. These chickens are known for their good meat quality and are often used for meat production. They are also easy to raise and ...

The Barred Rock breed are good layers averaging about 280 eggs each year ... We have it drilled into our heads that chicken meat is unsafe unless the juices run clear with no pink. However, the color ...

Fast-growing chickens are genetically-selected breeds that produce more meat. A legal challenge over the use of fast-growing chickens on farms in England has been dismissed in the high court.

Judges will hear an appeal later that could change the way the nation’s favourite meat is produced. Ninety per cent of all supermarket chickens in the UK are a fast-growing breed, genetically ...