The Department of Agriculture has announced it is lifting the compulsory housing order for poultry and captive birds that was ...

Bird flu may be a respiratory virus, but it still spreads through ground traffic. The shoes people wear every day could ...

Easy replication in cattle mammary glands means H5N1 bird flu is under no evolutionary pressure to adapt to spread easily in humans.

Animal-free egg protein intended to alleviate egg shortages will be coming from a biotech firm building its first plant in ...

Feed stores are selling out of baby chickens. But there are downsides to having a backyard flock, such as cost and potential ...

You may not think raw food for cats and dogs could be harmful, but new cases suggest these brands and their evangelists could ...

Jacob Bunge is deputy bureau chief for the Wall Street Journal’s Chicago corporate news bureau, which covers agriculture, food companies, restaurants, manufacturing and airlines.

Peregrine falcons nesting on top of the Campanile at UC Berkeley have become local celebrities. Now, for the first time since ...

White Lake requires residents with chickens must have at least two acres of land. One resident wants them allowed in smaller ...

Chickens aren’t just egg-laying machines—they’re social, sensitive animals with needs that go beyond food and shelter.

Today, we look at eggs and the rise of avian flu that began in 2023. According to the U.S. Bureau of Labor, in March, the ...

More than 100 federal scientists who track bird flu, including vaccine and food safety experts, have been laid off. This comes as the deadly pathogen rips through dairy herds and poultry flocks.