Properly cooking the eggs, keeping chickens separated can help reduce risks of getting bird flu from a backyard flock.

Bird flu is back in the headlines, and if you keep a few hens behind the garage or a full mixed flock on the edge of town, the risk is no longer an abstract problem for industrial barns. Highly ...

THERE’S SOMETHING ABOUT IT. CHICKEN PEOPLE UNDERSTAND YOU’LL SEE THEM, AND IT’S LIKE, I NEED TO HAVE THOSE OTHER PEOPLE DON’T UNDERSTAND IT. GREG HOUSE HAS OWNED BACKYARD CHICKENS FOR DECADES. IT ...

As people scramble for solutions amid the egg shortage, Denver7 spoke with one family seeing firsthand, the success of raising their own flock. Another family is pushing for chicken change. Ohhhh Boy, ...

SALISBURY, Md.- The Avian Bird Flu is driving some chicken owners on Delmarva to beef up their biosecurity efforts. Martin Hutchison of Salisbury has a backyard flock of nearly 70 chickens. Hutchison ...

Indian Creek Nature Center Director of Land Stewardship Jean Wiedenheft collects eggs laid by chickens at the Etzel Sugar Grove Farm near Marion on Jan. 15. (Nick Rohlman/The Gazette) Buy Photo The ...

On her picturesque farm near Wheaton, Kimberly Henny is used to having visitors drop by to snap up fresh eggs, honey and vegetables. But as concerns over bird flu ripple across the country, Henny and ...

State agriculture officials say the highly contagious virus can be deadly for poultry and are urging owners to act quickly if ...

I’ll admit, I jumped on the backyard chicken raising wagon last year. I probably would not have done so if I had joined all the backyard chicken raising groups beforehand. There’s, apparently, a lot ...

Ask my husband what stresses me out, and he’ll say, “worrying about pets,” and introducing new hens to my chicken coop is no exception. Selecting new birds is always exciting, but transporting and ...

For years, Naeema Finley noticed other people’s expressions when she told them she was raising chickens in her backyard. A Las Vegas native who lives in Atlanta, Finley brandishes elaborate ...