But avian influenza, as it’s also known, might not be the harbinger of the chicken apocalypse. In fact, US Secretary of Agriculture Tom Vilsack announced last week that the USDA is currently in the ...

Marek's disease can be pervasive in chicken houses. Chickens infected by this highly contagious viral disease often develop tumors, become paralyzed and die. They can shed the virus through their skin ...

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 ...

Chicken diseases interfere with productivity and the growth of chicken and are a serious threat to the profitability and sustainability of the venture. Many aspiring poultry farmers give up their ...

The dubious winners of the agricultural revolution, by sheer numbers, are obvious. Living in the world today are 30 billion chickens, 1 billion cows and almost 800 million pigs. While the dawn of ...

Using genetic analyses, an international team led by LMU paleogeneticist Laurent Frantz has revealed the evolutionary history of the pathogen of a fatal disease in chickens. A notifiable animal ...

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 ...

Broiler chicken, feed under Smart Brooder, in Tala, Machakos County, on June 27 2018, a technology that relays information to a farmer through SMS. The system is able to determine the age of the ...

Producing flocks that shed less virus into the environment may provide another method to eliminate the spread of the ...

Each summer, Colorado State University Extension oversees dozens of internships, providing students the opportunity to ...