The red mite is arguably the most notorious in poultry farms," states Yahaya Were, a poultry veterinarian. It is followed ...

However, she says, general bird behavior analysis offers a few possibilities ... Then they preen it out, helping to remove ...

bedding expert Chris Brookes says: 'As the name suggests, feather and down duvets combine feathers (the outer part of a bird’s plumage ... it’s naturally hypoallergenic and resistant to dust mites.

You can't see them with a naked eye, but dust mites are tiny pests that thrive in warm environments like your cozy bed. In mattresses, they feed on dead skin cells and cause skin irritations ...

“Other causes may need to be ruled out,” Dr. Turano says. Think: allergies to food, mange, mites, skin tumors (which are very rare) and eosinophilic granuloma complex (an allergic response to ...

Cat acne is exactly what it sounds like: swelling caused by clogged cat hair follicles, similar to clogged pores in humans. Dr. Preston Turano, DVM, a licensed vet and advisor for Felix Cat ...

The two-spotted spider mite, Tetranychus urticae, exemplifies the limitations of conventional pesticide-based pest management in agriculture and horticulture. These microscopic arachnids infest a ...

In early 2024, the bird influenza that had been spreading across the globe for nearly three decades did something wholly unexpected: It showed up in dairy cows in the Texas Panhandle. A dangerous ...

The ongoing spread of the highly pathogenic bird flu worldwide is reaching an “unprecedented” scale, a United Nations agency warned Monday. Speaking at a conference in Rome, key members of the ...

By Apoorva Mandavilli Robert F. Kennedy Jr., the nation’s top health official, has an unorthodox idea for tackling the bird flu bedeviling U.S. poultry farms. Let the virus rip. Instead of ...