Sitting with her therapy chicken, Woodstock, Tanya Bailey, Boynton Health’s Pet Away Worry and Stress (PAWS) program manager and animal-assisted interactions coordinator, said she was not sure what to ...

PAWS used to have fancy rats, mini horses and even llamas at one point, according to Skoyles Greenberg. Now, PAWS sessions feature registered therapy animals such as dogs, cats, rabbits and chickens.

Copyright 2024 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. Newly hatched chicks are seen after being sorted in a machine that provides a new technique to enable ...

Recently joining students at Hobson Public Schools is RomiJo Fend, a freshman. The move wasn’t a great distance, but it was a big change. She and her family moved from ...

New technology enables hatcheries to quickly peer into millions of fertilized eggs and spot male embryos, then grind them up before they mature into chicks. WILTON, Iowa — Every year the U.S ...

WILTON, Iowa (AP) — Every year the U.S. egg industry kills about 350 million male chicks because, while the fuzzy little animals are incredibly cute, they will never lay eggs, so have little ...