Choose the best heritage poultry breeds: chicken, discover a duck, get a gaggle of geese, or take home some turkeys.

ROLAND, Ark (Reuters) - P. Allen Smith can talk for hours about saving rare poultry. He also will be eating one of them for Thanksgiving. On his 650-acre Moss Mountain Farm outside Little Rock, Smith ...

Now known as “heritage turkeys,” many of the ancient breeds almost went extinct in the late 1990s. But those colorful, playful and spritely bird breeds are on the rebound as a small group of niche ...

The plump, big-breasted turkeys that will appear on millions of American kitchen tables this Thanksgiving are far different than the smaller, much rarer turkey breeds that once made up the majority of ...

A few weeks ago, I found myself talking to turkeys. Not talking turkey, mind you. I was talking to some stunning Bourbon Reds with blue snoods, Black Spanish beauties, flashy black-and-white ...

Before the mass-breeding programs of the early 20th century, turkeys took roughly 28 weeks to get to their full size, growing at an estimated rate of about 0.75 to 1 pound per week, according to one ...

The plump, big-breasted turkeys that will appear on millions of American kitchen tables this Thanksgiving are far different than the smaller, much rarer turkey breeds that once made up the majority of ...