As avian influenza continues to march across North America, highly pathogenic strains of the virus have killed or led to the culling of nearly 1.4 million birds across nearly every Canadian province.
In the United States, that number climbed to over 35 million animals by April 28. <
FRANKLIN — The cost to feed your family is on the rise and you see the evidence of that on your grocery store receipt.
As you pay more to check your usual items off your grocery list, WRTV digs deeper into the issue of rising food prices, including some of the causes and the impact on
Cat owners know that their feline friends like to spend time alone. Even if you have one of the most loving, cuddly cats, they still like to have "me time." Leaving a cat home alone for a short period of time is no big deal, and many are used to being alone during the workday. Pet parents find
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As curious and charming as they may be, a mini pig can get into lots of trouble if they aren't entertained and stimulated throughout
Pigs have a lot of potential for growth. In order to live up to that, it’s important to train the animals’ guts virtually straight from birth. Keeping that in mind, an early feeding programme with an automatic dispensing system was installed at Bankers farm, the Netherlands.
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Keeping long tails is only possible on farms that do not suffer from (ear or tail) necrosis, a phenomenon also known as SINS. This conclusion can be drawn with knowledge that is currently available.
Formally, tail docking is not allowed in the Netherlands – only under exceptional c
The first human case of avian flu was confirmed in China last week. But over the past three months, millions of birds have died. The ongoing bird flu global outbreak has resulted in the culling of tens of millions of birds all over the world.
The highly contagious virus was detecte
Poultry farmer Peter Kimani feeds his hens in Wakio farm,the hens in the cage make work easier and control food loss and contamination. [David Njaaga, Standard]
Confidence in consumer demand for free-range eggs is prompting communities to switch to free-range poultry farming.
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Dar es Salaam. The government said yesterday that it was planning to research the battery cage of poultry farming in order to come up with actual reasons to affect accessibility to the international market.
However, researchers said poultry keeping through the battery cage method violate