When a female cowbird is ready to have a baby, she’ll stake out another bird’s nest, wait until the coast is clear, then slip ...

This edition of the Happy Homestead talks about raising your own laying hens from hatching all the way up to full grown hens ...

The Trump administration is suing California Gov. Gavin Newsom over his state's animal cruelty laws, arguing they are ...

For eastern phoebes, a single nest requires so much incubating that splitting up the effort is almost sure to fail.

The lawsuit said California's animal cruelty laws created "unnecessary red tape" in egg production, bringing up prices in the ...

For months, bird flu was seemingly everywhere in the U.S.: news headlines reported the highly pathogenic H5N1 avian influenza ...

For this reason, you shouldn't remove or destroy an active nest. But what if you discover an abandoned nest from last season ...

The Department of Justice filed a lawsuit against California, arguing the state's animal welfare law preempts federal law and ...

The H5N1 avian flu is circulating in cows and other mammals. Whether it will make a permanent leap to humans is another ...

The State Board of Animal Health has quarantined more than 918,000 chickens at a commercial egg laying operation in Jay County, Indiana, due to suspected bird flu.

Bird feeders don't just attract our fine feathered friends - they also draw pesky chigger bugs. Fortunately, there are several ways to keep these critters away.