As concerns about the spread of bird flu continue to grow in the wake of ongoing outbreaks, U.S. officials have are working to keep the virus at bay in commercial poultry and dairy settings. In a ...

Learn how chickens handle cold, why frozen water is dangerous, and how dry bedding and airflow prevent winter health risks.

SAN DIEGO — Veterinarians at the San Diego Humane Society are urging backyard chicken owners to take precautions against bird flu, despite no positive cases reported in the county so far. Dr. Danielle ...

Backyard chickens have shifted from novelty to normal, but the disease pressure around them has shifted too. With highly ...

Bird flu is back in the headlines, and if you keep a few hens behind the garage or a full mixed flock on the edge of town, the risk is no longer an abstract problem for industrial barns. Highly ...

Kate Lawrence, a Virginia Cooperative Extension agent in Botetourt and Roanoke, shares this information on how to protect chickens from avian influenza: Be aware of the Avian Influenza outbreak ...

For backyard chicken owners, including this journalist, Friday’s story of Julie Meyer losing her flock of 55 birds to suspected avian flu was heart-wrenching, if not a call to action. It made locals ...

The University of Georgia received about $1.6 million from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation to breed chickens that are resistant to a virus found in sub-Saharan Africa. The Newcastle Virus kills ...

The price of eggs is ever-present in the collective American mind and has been for quite some time. As H5N1 influenza (more commonly known as “bird flu”) rages across the country, already inflated egg ...

With Hurricane Florence forecast to make landfall on the Carolina coast by Friday, people are being asked to do everything they can to prepare to deal with the impact of the powerful storm. That ...