There's nothing like the fresh eggs from your own hens, the more than 400,000 Australians who keep backyard chooks will tell you. Unfortunately, it's often not just freshness and flavor that set their ...

Australia’s poultry industry remains on high alert as authorities monitor a potential bird flu outbreak with seven detected ...

Australian egg producers will be allowed to use battery cages until 2036 in a decision animal welfare organisations say will consign 55 million hens to a life of suffering. The Department of ...

But now a new study has found that eggs from backyard hens may contain dangerous levels of lead up to 40 times higher than eggs bought from the supermarket, sparking a warning to urban gardeners. In ...

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Australia's largest chicken meat buyer, Papua New Guinea, has reversed its decision to suspend Australian poultry and egg imports due to the H5N1 bird flu outbreak.

After being detected for the very first time in two seabirds in Western Australia less than a week ago, the deadly H5N1 strain of bird flu has also arrived in a second state – with a case confirmed in ...

The deadly H5N1 strain of bird flu has been found in seabirds in two Australian states. But don't be fooled by the name: This ...

There's nothing like the fresh eggs from your own hens, the more than 400,000 Australians who keep backyard chooks will tell you. Unfortunately, it's often not just freshness and flavour that set ...