It’s enough to stop the heart of any new chicken owner. Your chicken is rolling on the ground, twitching and kicking. Is she having a seizure? Is she injured? You run over only to have her hop up and look at you confused about all the commotion. So what is all the weird kicking …
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Fly Strike is a potentially fatal condition all rabbit owners should be on the lookout for during warmer months. Fly Strike can affect any animal – chickens, dogs, cows, even humans, but it is most often seen in rabbits and sheep. What is Fly Strike? This condition is a fast-moving affliction caused by the green …
For many years, I avoided growing potatoes. I thought they needed a lot of space and they weren’t practical for backyard gardens. I was so wrong! Potatoes are not only a great addition to the backyard garden, but they are really easy to grow. They are a cold-weather crop that grows well in the northern …
Want to bake up some tasty treats for your favorite bunny? Commercial treats can have lots of icky preservatives and artificial coloring. I guarantee your rabbits don’t care what color their treat is (the coloring is just for our benefit) they just want something tasty! The base of these cookies is your rabbit’s normal feed …
Feeding your backyard duck flock can be challenging. While feed stores carry several kinds of chicken feed and a “mixed flock” feed, finding waterfowl feed can be harder. Way more people keep chickens than they do ducks, so chicken feed is generally much easier to find. I had tried the mixed flock feed once …
I have been gardening in some form or another for pretty much my entire adult life. I have heard the term “permaculture” here and there but honestly it sounded pretty intimidating and expensive. I never really looked into the concepts behind it because I had decided it was something only big scale farmers needed and …
Ducks are pretty easy animals to add to your farm. They don’t need much in terms of shelter – just a secure, safe place to retreat to. It can be a sectioned-off corner of your barn or shed, or you can even house them in your chicken coop if you want to. When I started …
Did you know you can train chickens? Chickens are actually very intelligent animals. One British study shows they are smarter than human toddlers! Within hours of hatching, chicks can already keep track of numbers up to five. They also exhibit the knowledge that even when an object is out of sight it still exists (which humans …
Some call it thrifty, but I will admit it, I am cheap. Growing up, whenever my sister or I would ask for the latest toy or fad, my mother, after hearing the price, would usually reply with “I can make that for less than half the price!”. It was often met with complaints or eye …
You can buy started strawberry plants at the nursery. By buying bare root strawberry sets you can save a ton of money, and get a larger variety and healthier, more vigorous plants. And if your family is like mine, there can never be too many strawberries! There are dozens of strawberry varieties for every climate. …