To dominate a backyard chicken pageant in this town, a bird must have luxuriant plumage, a plucky personality, and be in good shape. It also helps to show up — with a mite-free derrière. Of the 12 ...

“Cochin chickens are the closest you can get to a dog,” Teresa said. So they returned from Good Hope with three cochin hens, and when there happened to be a rooster for sale, they grabbed him as well.

Fifteen-year-old Madison Waggoner wanted Bruce and not Bruce’s Girl to get the ribbons. Bruce won first place in his class — a Feather-Legged Black Cochin chicken — but Bruce’s Girl was grand champion ...

No one clucked at raising chickens Thursday night at a forum on the topic in Easton – not even the chickens. A pair of Silkie/Cochin chickens, Firecracker and her mother, an unnamed hen, relaxed in ...