The chickens on Manners Farms were happier, healthier, and tastier after a trial run of Northern Ontario’s first fully automated pasture barn this past summer.
Farming couple Zach and Chelsea Manners are the first in the North to follow the...
Merck Animal Health recently announced that the FDA has approved its new product, Safe-Guard AquaSol® (fenbendazole oral suspension), for use in backyard chicken flocks. This innovative solution is designed to help poultry owners effectively manage and treat common parasitic...
Molting is a natural process where chickens shed and regrow their feathers, usually occurring annually, typically in fall. During molting, hens often stop laying eggs and may look ragged as they focus their energy on feather regrowth. This period...
Homegrown eggs are so tasty they are unlikely to sit around long enough to spoil. However, eggs do occasionally go off. Every chicken keeper should know how to tell a good egg from a bad egg.
Why an Egg Goes...
Using a boot bath before and after you visit your chickens keeps your footwear clean. More important, it enhances your biosecurity measures to ensure that your flock stays healthy. The procedure for maintaining a boot bath and sanitizer is...
As someone intimately involved in poultry, I find it hard to admit when I discover
something I didn’t know about the poultry industry. But that’s exactly what happened several years ago when my eldest son decided to start his own...
Keeping small poultry flocks continues to be one of the fastest-growing hobbies in the US. If you have a small poultry flock or are thinking of getting one, you should be aware of the highly pathogenic Avian Influenza H5N1....
Chicken keepers in the United States are a diverse bunch in such things as where they live, how many chickens they keep, and what they feed their flock. A paper published in Poultry Science offers some interesting insights about...
What could have been a simple afternoon public meeting in Guelph/Eramosa veered into a philosophical debate over whether it is right for a municipality to regulate something that may provide food for a family.
That may have been beyond the...
Anyone who keeps outdoor birds in Wales and England will now have to register them as part of efforts to prevent fresh outbreaks of bird flu.
Birds kept indoors are not affected, but anyone with chickens, fowl or pigeons living...