The chicken's breed determines what color egg it will lay. Sometimes, a chicken's ear color gives their egg color away — with white-eared chickens producing white eggs and red-eared ones laying ...

For instance, silkie chickens have black bones and skin, but their plumage can be white, brown, or another color. Many black chicken breeds originated in Asia. For instance, ...

Bantam roosters have a tiny body structure with colorful feathers (left) and battled it out against the likes of the Sultan chickens which have a great deal of decorative plumage, including large ...

Could free-range, colorful, heartier chickens become the norm in American broiler production? Animal welfare advocates say yes. ... Breed a Better Chicken. By Maryn Mckenna. March 24, 2016 ...