The El Niño rains come with many challenges for farmers. Today, we look at two poultry diseases that follow heavy rains. The flood waters provide favourable conditions for multiplication and growth of ...

Disease. One of the scariest words in farming and food production. In a state that’s king of the poultry industry, expert planning, precautions and emergency response are chief priorities to keep ...

Just two weeks into 2026, outbreaks of highly pathogenic avian influenza on poultry farms have been confirmed across the ...

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, ...

On a September afternoon, Georgie Cartanza walked inside one of her chicken houses to check on tens of thousands of chicks. The chicks, just three days old, were smaller and lighter than a tennis ball ...

PULLMAN, Wash. (AP) - Researchers say a serious new form of a viral poultry disease has been found in Washington state. Infectious bursal disease virus, known as IBDV for short, is not known to infect ...

Biodesign Institute at Arizona State University associate research scientist Melha Mellata, a member of professor Roy Curtiss' team, is leading a USDA funded project to develop a vaccine against a ...

Attenuated live vaccines that protect poultry against Newcastle Disease may be altering the genetic makeup of the wild virus strains, which could make future outbreaks unpredictable and difficult to ...

Officials are monitoring infectious laryngotracheitis in poultry that hasn’t increased in number of cases but appears to be ...

In a recent review in the journal Animal Diseases, researchers collated and discussed nearly 100 prior publications to enhance our understanding of Avian Intestinal Spirochaetosis (AIS), a disease ...

FAISALABAD: Diseases incurred substantial financial losses worth Rs 300 million to Pakistan’s poultry sector through reduced productivity, and mortality that can be overcome by propagating the modern ...

For decades, I’ve led Rose Acre Farms Inc., headquartered in Seymour, Indiana. With about 25 million laying hens – over ...