Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Can chickens eat bird food? It's a question you may be asking if you have a flock of feathered friends as part of your family. The ...

Bird flu seems to be ramping up — the US announced its first human death this week, and the highly contagious virus has spread to all 50 states. With more than 130 million birds and nearly 1,000 dairy ...

Interest in raising backyard chickens grew rapidly during the COVID-19 pandemic and continues due to the ever-increasing cost of store-bought eggs. But the same H5N1 bird flu that has led to the ...

If you own backyard chickens or recently built a backyard chicken coop, the current bird flu outbreak has probably crossed your mind more than once. Maybe you watched a wild duck land near the coop ...

On her picturesque farm in the suburbs of Chicago, 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 ...

Bird flu (or avian influenza) is a bird disease caused by specific types of influenza virus. But the virus can also infect cows. In the US, to date, more than 80 dairy herds in at least nine states ...

LONDON (Reuters) - British scientists have developed genetically modified (GM) chickens that cannot transmit bird flu infections -- a step that in future could reduce the risk of avian flu spreading ...