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 ...

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 popular trend of raising backyard chickens in cities and suburbs across the U.S. is bringing with it a soaring number of illnesses from poultry-related diseases, some of them fatal. DES MOINES, ...

BAKERSFIELD, Calif. (KGET) — A viral bird illness is affecting poultry throughout the country. It’s called Virulent Newcastle Disease and it’s made its way to California. With more than 60 cases of ...

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 ...

As the guy responsible for more than 2 million hens laying 1.5 million eggs per day, Jeff Peterson took no chances when news broke May 17 the chicken disease called virulent Newcastle had been ...

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 ...