Rooster recalls common past

Fowl Play

Is an avian flu pandemic imminent? As panic sends the world into a flutter, the Indian response still struggles to take wing, discover padmaparna …

4 flu mutants

Seven eminent virologists discuss the implications with Down To Earth

Fowl play

January 3, and all is not well in Hong Kong. With four people dead, and 11 confirmed and six suspected cases of A (H5N1) infection, the new …

Birds of a feather

Is the RJF extinct in the wild?

First comes chick

Kuroiler hens offer a poultry business model that can fight poverty, nutritional stress

Cockpit

In early December 2007, the country prided itself on providing the world with a road map to check the highly pathogenic avian influenza virus H5NI.…

Poultry business too serious to be left to industry

Fishing in new waters

Fisherfolk in Odisha try their hand at dairy and poultry farming

Chicken comes home to roost

Drugged by chicken

Antibiotics in meat make disease-causing bacteria resistant to cures

When business rules our kitchens

Who flew?

Is influenza afflicting government?

Why save the rooster?

In 1996, about 14,000 million tonnes of meat came from the chicken alone. Rare indigenous breeds are extremely hardy and provide more protein and …

Unsafe or secure?

Amid the gloom surrounding RJF data, an experiment in Haryana gives some hope

Red roving fowl

India, which gave the red jungle fowl, the mother of all poultry to the rest of the world, is now importing poultry from outside and destroying …

A bird flu over the commie nest

Crying fowl

In wake of bird flu

Biosecurity system proposed

Silken feed

The new 'shepherd'

Vaccine to prevent viral infection in hens

Scientists in Madras gave come up with a vaccine that would help leash a viral disease that impairs the egg-laying ability of hens, and is often …

Chickening out

Answer to the "which came first:chicken or egg?" debate

Drought damage