A laboratory study of eight commercial raw pet food products found electron beam doses of 9.5–12.7 kGy achieved more than 5-log pathogen reduction while leaving most nutritional parameters statistically unchanged. Subject of Research: Electron beam processing to eliminate Salmonella and Listeria…
“They simply grow too fast for their bodies to keep up,” said the animal welfare minister. The Danish government wants to ban a fast-growing breed known as “turbo chickens,” setting up another clash with the farm sector over animal welfare.
A systematic review of 189 studies estimates pooled global prevalence of Salmonella spp. at 33.3% and E. coli at 25.1% in reptiles, with marked variation by taxon, geography and diagnostic method.
All summer, your hens have been keeping the egg basket full. Then fall arrives, and suddenly you’re finding one egg in the nesting box instead of three. Maybe none at all. The chickens are eating the same feed, living in…
Petting zoos and E. coli. Here we go again. The Will County Health Department (Joliet, Illinois) is investigating five laboratory-confirmed cases of Shiga toxin-producing E. coli (STEC) that may be connected to visits to Bengtson’s Pumpkin Farm in Homer Glen. Health officials…
By Sara Amundson and Kitty Block This week, a U.S. District Court in Michigan denied the U.S. Department of Justice’s lawsuit challenging Michigan’s cage-free egg law. Michigan is one of 11 states that ban the use of cages for egg-laying hens and one…
PERHAM — After hearing arguments for and against allowing backyard chickens within city limits, the Planning Commission voted Tuesday morning to recommend that the Perham City Council approve a proposed urban chicken ordinance. Operational standards include keeping hens confined at all…
324 pages, hardcover. $18.40 from Amazon. Not quite every ANIMALS 24-7 headline of the past ten days or so addresses the specific paradoxes that Hal Herzog examined sixteen years ago in Some We Love, Some We Hate, Some We Eat: Why It’s So…
Workman, a 90-year-old Lost Lake resident, told WKMG ClickOrlando that peacocks have been in the area since before he moved there in 2000. He said about six of the birds once got onto his pool enclosure and were surprisingly heavy, and…
Fox News Adventurous chickens turn wet porch railing into slide Footage from Minnesota shows three chickens taking turns sliding down a rain-soaked porch railing like it's their own personal playground.
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