Dear Joan: Recently, I noticed four small mounds of bird seed deposited in the fake lawn in my backyard. Neighbors have bird feed feeders in their yard, and I asked them to look at the seed. It was ...

The staff from the Colorado Springs book store recommends volumes on chickens, bears and the birds outside our window.

Driving from the Riverside Bridge to downtown Hoquiam you may have noticed a beautiful new mural featuring “Our Backyard ...

The California Department of Food and Agriculture suggests using a disinfectant foot bath with a scrub mat at the entrance of your chicken run or coop. Kari Koulmentas, who keeps most of her chickens ...

When Vancouver resident James Lanz and his wife, Kate Ketcham, moved into their Cascade Park home nearly seven years ago, one of the first tasks they wanted to tackle was the landscaping. Grass covere ...

Bird flu has been found in at least one pig at a backyard farm in Oregon, the first detection of the H5N1 virus in swine in the United States, the U.S. Agriculture Department said Wednesday.

The first known case of avian influenza in a pig in the United States was confirmed at a small farm in Central Oregon on ...

The presence of highly pathogenic avian influenza has been detected in a backyard flock in Crook County. This is the first ...

Forest bathing is based on scientific evidence that time spent in nature is good for you. The term emerged in the 1980s from ...

The pig was one of five that were found and tested in a backyard farm operation ... virus “out of abundance of caution” after the bird flu was detected among poultry at the farm last week.

Amy Tan, whose new book The Backyard Bird Chronicles, started as a private nature journal of birds in her garden in Sausalito, came to birding as a response to American politics, specifically, ...

The USDA and Oregon veterinary officials are investigating bird flu cases in a backyard farming operation that had a mix of poultry and livestock, including pigs, the agency said. “The livestock ...