Little known Danish Hellevad chicken could hold key to robust health

Traditional strains of chicken may not have a place in the modern poultry house, but they could hold the key to some future advances in breeding. Take the case of the Hellevad chicken, little known outside a remote corner of Denmark until it was found to contain a gene that seems to be linked to robust health. By Roger Ranson , BHR Communications, UK The Hellevad chicken is an egg laying strain that has been bred by the Wolf family over the past 50 years and sold to small producers, many of the