For exhibition purposes, large chicken breeds recognized by the American Poultry Association (APA) are organized into six classes. Most of the classes represent the geographic region where the breeds originated or were developed. Knowing a chicken’s APA class lets...
Gangrenous dermatitis (GD) is a disease that causes severe economic losses in the poultry industry worldwide. Blue wing disease and cellulitis are other common names in chickens and turkeys, respectively. Clostridium septicum, Clostridium perfringens type A, and occasionally Clostridium...
Let’s say that you want to start a farm, and you’re going to use that farm to replace your current income. That’s a beautiful goal, I love it, but where do you start?
Whether you want to raise vegetables, beef,...
Whether it’s scrambled eggs, chicken sandwiches or Thanksgiving turkey, Americans love their poultry. The average American eats around 115 pounds of poultry every year, compared with just 34 pounds in 1960, and chicken is now the most widely consumed...
Headlines are flying after the Department of Agriculture confirmed that the H5N1 bird flu virus has infected dairy cows around the country. Tests have detected the virus among cattle in nine states, mainly in Texas and New Mexico, and...
Heredity describes how traits are passed from a hen and rooster to their offspring. These traits are encoded in genes, which in turn are found on chromosomes. Since only the end results — but not the genes and chromosomes...
Letting go is difficult for any business owner, and it can be especially challenging for poultry farmers. You may not have enough time to step back from the demands of running your business to plan for retirement and prepare...
Despite extensive efforts by the poultry industry, the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) still attributes a large portion of the roughly 1.35 million annual foodborne Salmonella illnesses to chickens, turkeys, and eggs.1,2 Therefore, the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Food...
When poultry farms get infected with avian flu and slaughter millions of birds, should we really be subsidizing them with considerable compensation, given the science on what's driving this disease?
Highly pathogenic avian influenza (HPAI) is killing poultry, wild birds...
Organic farming in rural Shelby or physical therapy in Bucyrus? A local resident born and raised in rural Crestline does both.
Meet your neighbor, Adam Paynter, a third generation farmer and physical therapist with Avita Health System.
Adam was taught the...