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, ...

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 ...

Two more commercial chicken operations in Riverside County have been hit with the bird-killing virulent Newcastle disease, and officials are stepping up eradication efforts, the U.S. Department of ...

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 ...

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 ...

Raising backyard chickens has become a fun hobby for many urban dwellers in the San Joaquin Valley, but a devastating poultry disease currently raging in Southern California could put those birds and ...

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 ...

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 ...

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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 ...