A healthy chicken typically breathes through its closed beak. If a chicken is breathing with its beak open, it may be sick or experiencing stress, such as from heat or anxiety. Respiratory illnesses ...

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 ...

The Delaware Department of Agriculture announced Nov. 7 that a backyard chicken flock in Kent County tested presumptive ...

A Southeast Texas woman pleaded guilty Oct. 24 to smuggling chickens into the United States from countries where poultry populations are affected by a highly contagious and often deadly disease.

A unique chicken breed is helping researchers better understand vitiligo, an autoimmune disease that affects 1 to 2% of the world’s population. In vitiligo (pronounced vit-ih-LIE-go) the immune system ...

OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — Vaccines could be a key means of suppressing bird flu and avoiding the slaughter of millions of chickens, which is blamed for egg prices averaging nearly $6 a dozen. But the move ...