When finding a good place to store bird seed, one's backyard shed may come to mind. After all, the shed is a versatile structure that can serve as a storage space for tools, gardening equipment ...

Additionally, the cheap corn used in big-box store birdseed is often of poor quality and has been left to sit for long periods, increasing the risk of contamination. Pass! Red milo (also known as ...

Backyard birds provide pest control, pollination, seed dispersal, and contribute to a healthy ecosystem in your garden. Avoid ...

Amy Tan, whose new book The Backyard Bird Chronicles, started as a private nature journal of birds in her garden in Sausalito, came to birding as a response to American politics, specifically, ...

The number of workers at a Franklin County commercial egg farm who have now tested positive for avian influenza has increased ...

Ray Holmes with his rescue hen Norma Collier. He has registered six birds but opposes penalties for backyard keepers People who keep pet chickens are being urged to register them ahead of a legal ...

The California Department of Food and Agriculture suggests using a disinfectant foot bath with a scrub mat at the entrance of your chicken run or coop. Kari Koulmentas, who keeps most of her chickens ...

Install a bird bath Birds will be seeking out water supplies as fresh water can be tough to find when it's cold, especially as most of it freezes over. If you don’t want to install a bird bath ...

Bird flu has been found in at least one pig at a backyard farm in Oregon, the first detection of the H5N1 virus in swine in the United States, the U.S. Agriculture Department said Wednesday.

It’s pretty simple. You look out your window at birdfeeders or just your yard and count birds for as little or as long as you want. A joint research and education project sponsored by Cornell ...

The pig was one of five that were found and tested in a backyard farm operation ... virus “out of abundance of caution” after the bird flu was detected among poultry at the farm last week.

She didn’t want the birds, which she’d raised in her Maryland backyard, to suffer. One by one, the four knelt over a white ...