Disease. One of the scariest words in farming and food production. In a state that’s king of the poultry industry, expert planning, precautions and emergency response are chief priorities to keep ...

Another commercial poultry farm in Strathroy-Caradoc has been hit with an outbreak of avian influenza, the Canadian Food ...

On a September afternoon, Georgie Cartanza walked inside one of her chicken houses to check on tens of thousands of chicks. The chicks, just three days old, were smaller and lighter than a tennis ball ...

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 ...

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 ...

The federal government and Gov. Gray Davis both declared a state of emergency Wednesday in Southern California because of an outbreak of exotic Newcastle disease, a deadly avian virus that is ...

A Southern California outbreak of a devastating poultry disease has reached Ventura County, prompting a warning to residents who raise chickens. A case of Newcastle disease, a potentially deadly virus ...

DNA from chickens that lived at least 1,000 years ago unravels the mystery behind the escalation of Marek’s disease. The early days of a deadly virus that has run rampant in chicken populations for ...

Backyard poultry farmers on Tuesday can learn about a unique and virulent strain of disease attacking birds in Sonoma County. Beate Crossley from the UC Davis School of Veterinary Medicine and the ...

Poultry establishments may vary from basic or subsistence, indigenous or backyard poultry keeping to mechanised and automated farming methods. Others are mixed farming to joint meat and egg ...

Some of the chicken reared by Naftal Mocha, a rabbit and poultry farmer in Mwiki, Nairobi, on Friday, July 24 2020. [David Njaaga,Standard] The environment in which our farmers operate is constantly ...