Question: Can anyone explain why our government is reluctant to remove feral chickens that move into our community (for ...

The U.S. Department of Agriculture has announced plans to spend $100 million to study bird flu vaccines to fight the disease in concert with meat chicken, egg and turkey groups.

The US government is considering bird flu vaccines to prevent the mass culling of infected chickens, which has driven egg prices to nearly $6 per dozen.

Ken Pounds has a coop full of turkeys, and with justifiable concerns about bird flu, that’s all he wants in there. No flies if he can help it. Definitely no people who don’t need to be there. And ...

More than 28,000 chickens in central Taiwan have been culled in an effort to stop the spread of a deadly strain of avian flu.

Day-old male Cobb 500 broiler chicks (n = 720) were reared in floor pens covered with clean pine wood shavings and equipped with separate feeders and water lines in a controlled environment. Ambient ...

Mass culling is expensive, but alternatives, like vaccinating chickens or luring wild birds away from domestic flocks, would ...