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 ...

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

Books about backyard bird feeding are plentiful as well. Perhaps better yet, stop by your local birding supply store. Places like Wild Birds Unlimited in Lisle offer guidance along with the ...

According to Sean Warner, CEO of Grubbly Farms—which sells products for backyard poultry—there ... Your laying birds are going to need more calcium, as well as the right amount of protein ...

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, ...

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 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 ...

The first known case of avian influenza in a pig in the United States was confirmed at a small farm in Central Oregon on ...

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.

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 ...

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.

Love birds? Have kids who love birds ... whatever that may be — from my balcony in my apartment to my backyard to my local community,” he said. “So we have our native seed library program ...