Aviculture

Headlines

S. Africa’s Neighbours Ban Poultry Imports Over Bird Flu

Four of South Africa's neighbours have banned poultry imports from the rainbow nation following a serious outbreak of a...

News

Local Farmers Produce Only 5% of Chicken Consumed In Ghana

Local poultry farmers only produce five per cent of chicken consumed in the country with 95 per cent imported, an...

Headlines

Egg Shape Depends On Flying Skills of Bird

The rich variety in shapes of the eggs that birds lay -- elliptical, pointy, spherical -- seems to be linked to how...

News

Pigeon ‘caught With Backpack of Drugs’

Customs officials in Kuwait have apprehended a pigeon carrying drugs in a miniature backpack, Kuwaiti newspaper al-Rai...

Business

Poultry Industry Near Collapse Over No Compensation For Bird Flu

Poultry farmers are yet to be paid after their birds were destroyed due to bird flu attack The constant refusal by...

Headlines

Free Incubators Save Lives of Indonesian Babies

Tiny Indonesian baby Maryamah stared around from inside an incubator, her bright eyes swivelling left and right from...

International

Poultry In England Allowed Outside As Anti-Bird Flu Measures Relaxed

All poultry in England will be allowed outside again from Thursday, having been kept indoors to protect them from an...

Headlines

Bird-Flu Deaths Rise In China, Shutting Poultry Markets

China is experiencing its deadliest outbreak of the H7N9 bird-flu strain since it first appeared in humans in 2013,...

Opinion

One Region, One Incubator Panacea For Youth Unemployment In Ghana

The political campaign season is here with us again. An apparent struggle to determine who controls the states...