Java chickens are about as close to the original domesticated chicken as you can get. However, the pressures of industrial agriculture have pushed the breed close to extinction. I drive backward in ...

Garfield Farm Museum in Campton Hills invites the community to its 30th annual Rare Breeds Livestock and Poultry Show from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. Sunday, May 22. Admission is $6 or $3 for children younger ...

When Abraham Lincoln passed farmyards on horseback as a circuit-riding lawyer in Illinois in the 1840s and 1850s, many of the chickens he saw pecking and clucking around barns and houses likely were a ...