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Prepare Your Trees & Shrubs for Winter
If you’ve invested a lot of time and money into your landscaping this year, the last thing you want is for all of your beautiful plants, shrubs, and trees to become damaged by the impending winter weather.
Halloween Pet Dangers
Halloween is a season when it’s fun to be scared, but there is nothing fun about the serious dangers Halloween can present to pets.
Molting: The Naked Truth
There comes a time in every chicken’s life (usually around 14 – 18 months old) where they start to lose all their feathers, look gangly and downright ugly. But don’t be alarmed! This is a natural process that occurs annually. This process is called molt. What is molt? Molt is the natural shedding of feathers and regrowth of new ones. This usually happens in the fall as day length shortens. It is the chickens way to refresh old feathers and grow new ones for the coming winter. Molt happens in an expected order, starting at the head, down the back, breast and...
Summer Feed Storage – What You Need to Know
We all know summer brings heat, as well as important considerations when storing poultry and any other pet or livestock feed. We think about summer feed storage and keeping feed the right way and serving it to your flock in the most efficient way, saving you time and money. I have likely made all the mistakes that can be made in my poultry keeping days, so hopefully my experience can help some of you be the best livestock keepers you can be. When I buy a bag of feed and bring it home, I pour it slowly into a metal storage container...
Five Common Nutritional Mistakes
We all understand the benefits of good nutritional habits. Sometimes what we know in principal and what we do in our every day life can be two different things. The following are the five most common nutritional mistakes we make as pet owners. Not measuring the food: One of the most common mistakes owners make is measuring their pet’s food. While there are a very few pets that will just eat the number of calories that their body requires, this is uncommon. Most pets, if given the choice of free feeding, will tend to over eat. Some do this out of...