As more and more individuals are creating backyard flocks of chickens and raising chickens as pets, there are some safety tips that all chicken and poultry handlers need to remember to help keep ...

For a farmer to get full benefits of his investments, labour and time on his chicken farm, he must have a healthy flock. With that in mind, knowledge of important diseases, their transmission, ...

Chicks like these are commonly vaccinated for Marek’s disease while they are embryos still in the egg, providing protection against the deadly disease, which is found in all poultry environments ...

Orange color Polish crested chicken on exhibition in a cage. Homeowners with backyard chickens have now given federal agriculture officials reason to worry. A contagious viral disease affecting the ...

Discover how changes in poultry drinking behavior can predict diseases early, helping farmers protect flock health and boost ...

LANCASTER, Pa. (WHTM) – After a spike in a chicken disease called infectious coryza, poultry farmers are being asked to take extra precautions. Lancaster County is being hit especially hard, with many ...

Raising backyard chickens has become a fun hobby for many urban dwellers in the San Joaquin Valley, but a devastating poultry disease currently raging in Southern California could put those birds and ...

The live poultry show has been canceled at next month’s Riverside County Fair. The ever-popular ostrich races are a scratch too. And hundreds of California schoolchildren who have spent the last year ...

The Salinas Valley Fair has decided to cancel their annual poultry exhibit at their 2019 fair due to an outbreak of a contagious poultry disease. The decision was made after a new case of the disease ...

For a farmer to get full benefits of his investments, labour and time on his chicken farm, he must have a healthy flock. With that in mind, knowledge of important diseases, their transmission, ...

A new study from University of California, Davis, and the U.S. Department of Agriculture describes how vaccines work against a deadly virus in chickens, and could offer a model for related human ...