Backyard chickens may live a sweeter life than chickens on commercial poultry farms, but roaming green grass and scratching real dirt exposes these birds to a different suite of parasites than those ...

We've had unwanted guests in the henhouse. They're red mites. Tiny, blood sucking "ectoparasites" that live in the crevices of wooden bird houses, schlep about during the day, then go for the birds ...

One of my clients, James Njogu has been a chicken farmer for close to 10 years now. I met Njogu in one of the poultry farmers’ training session we held in Thika town last year. For the 10 year she has ...