The North Dakota Department of Agriculture has confirmed a case of highly pathogenic bird flu in a backyard chicken flock in ...

Feed stores are selling out of baby chickens. But there are downsides to having a backyard flock, such as cost and potential ...

You may not think raw food for cats and dogs could be harmful, but new cases suggest these brands and their evangelists could ...

High egg prices are driving more families to get their eggs from their backyards instead of the grocery stores.

H5N1 bird flu has now crossed into U.S. dairy cattle for the first time, and alarmingly, it did so through just one spillover ...

Australian and Dutch researchers have uncovered a remarkable evolutionary adaptation in birds that could hold vital clues for ...

The White House used 30,000 real eggs for the Easter egg roll, the first to be open to corporate sponsorships. Will that ...

A vaccine under development has demonstrated complete protection in mice against a deadly variant of the virus that causes bird flu. The work focuses on the H5N1 variant known as 2.3.4.4b, which has ...

Raw milk could be sold in grocery stores and farmers markets under an Iowa House bill advanced Tuesday that drew strong ...

A variant of the bird flu virus, collected in 2016 and no longer in circulation, was just one mutation away from being able ...

Avian flu strains tend to only affect birds, but the current outbreak has spread to cattle and – in rare cases – people. The ...

Any evidence of a bird virus jumping readily into mammals is a worry, as it could indicate that mutations that allow for ...