Disease can invade your runs very quickly and cause pain and suffering for your chickens, and devastation for you and your family over the suffering and death of your chickens. If you practice good hygiene in your coops and runs, vaccinate chicks, and you monitor nutrition to ensure that your chickens are given all the …
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Goats love all kinds of sweet treats. They will happily experiment with new tastes and develop specific favorite tastes. But not all treats are good for them. Food that has a high sugar level can cause digestive problems and problems with obesity. So, can goats eat grapes? Grapes can be fed to goats as a …
Soil pathogens, garden pests, grass, and weeds can all cost you dearly in time, labor, and the almighty dollar to keep your plants, fruit, and vegetables healthy. Using pesticides is not always the best choice as the chemicals can be harmful to the environment and can contaminate the food produced. Organic gardening is always best …
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Many third-world country inhabitants have never been required to prepare a meal without a gas or electric stove. But for centuries, people have been baking bread, preparing fish, making jerky, cooking meat, and even making pizzas without electricity. As a keen outdoors woman/hiker/climber/canoeist/horse trail rider, I have often had to do without electricity for weeks …
There are few things cuter than the antics of goats. They love to goof around climbing trees, jumping on each other, or just hopping about playfully. But cuter still is when they find a tasty treat to eat that gets the lips wobbling. They only eat fresh food and love anything sweet and tasty. So, …
Do not be fooled by goats’ willingness to consume anything and everything in reach. There are things that are not good for their health. So, can goats eat apples? Yes, goats can eat apples. But they need to be sliced into small pieces that are easy to chew and digest, and should only be provided …
Capturing a swarm has many benefits. For starters, you don’t have to lay out money purchasing bees. Capturing a local swarm has the added benefit of ensuring the bees you are keeping are used to the weather and environment and are equipped to be strong in the face of illness specific to the area. If …
I have a very passionate, personal motivation for enriching the lives of people living with disabilities. I myself am disabled, I have a son with a serious form of epilepsy and is on the autism spectrum, a daughter who I rebel against calling “normal”. She was diagnosed as a downs baby when I was pregnant, …
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Originating in America in 1910, professor ‘Red’ Richardson with input from local farmers and the New Hampshire Agricultural Experiment Station began the process of creating the New Hampshire hen. This was in response to poultry breeders desire for hens that are fast feathering and chickens that grew and matured quicker than the Rhode Island Red …
Frustration times 10! You’ve planted your veggies and flowers; you cannot wait to reap the harvest and see your yard in full bloom. Then one morning, you go out into your greenhouse or yard only to find… your spinach is holier than the pope, your walnut tree barely has a scrap of a leaf – …
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