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Autumn Nutrition: How to Keep Your Animals Thriving as Temperatures Drop

As the vibrant colors of autumn leaves begin to paint the landscape, it’s a reminder that colder weather is on its way. For farmers and animal caretakers, this season brings unique challenges and opportunities to ensure their animals remain healthy and thriving. Here are some essential tips to keep...

Fall Garden Prep: Tips for a Thriving Autumn Garden

As the days begin to cool and the leaves start to change, it's the perfect time to focus on your fall garden. Whether you're an avid gardener or just getting started, preparing your garden for autumn is essential for enjoying a bountiful harvest and beautiful blooms. 1. Plant Cool-Weather CropsFall...

Chicken Molting Tips

Molting is an essential part of chickens’ growth and health, but losing and replacing feathers is also a messy, stressful process. Taking steps to help chickens with molting can minimize the stress and keep your backyard flock happy and healthy. About Molting All chickens molt to replace old,...

Tips to Help Calm Your Pets During Storms

A sudden thunderstorm can be terrifying for any pet, and cats and dogs can become very stressed during storms. There are easy ways to help your pet feel more comfortable, however, and keep them from getting too excited or anxious when storms pass by. Provide a Safe Place Your pet will feel more...

General Fly Control for Property, Yards and Farm

Flies can be more than just a nuisance, they can actually be dangerous to you, your animals, your garden and your crops. There are dozens of types of flies that can mean trouble, but fortunately, it is no trouble to take simple steps to control all sorts of fly populations around your property. The...

Summer Wild Bird Feeding and Care Tips

Summer is a delightful season filled with the sights and sounds of nature at its most vibrant. Among the many joys of summer is the presence of wild birds, adding beauty and music to our gardens and outdoor spaces. Providing care and nourishment to these feathered visitors can be a rewarding...

Dropping Boards – De-Poop Your Coop!

Even the healthiest chickens can make a massive mess inside their coop as feces, dirt and feathers accumulate in such a small space. Dropping boards are the ideal solution to help keep a coop clean with ease, reducing the time necessary to clean the coop and protecting the birds' health by...

Attract More Hummingbirds

Hummingbirds can be treasured backyard visitors, and many bird-lovers dream of attracting a glittering flock of hummingbirds to their yard. Fortunately, it can be fairly easy to attract more hummingbirds, and soon any yard can be a-flutter with these flying jewels. Attracting Hummingbirds with...

Pecking Order in Chicks

Every commercial poultry farmer, hobby farmer or urban backyard farmer who keep a few chickens is aware that a pecking order exists in every flock, but how can young chicks fit into that hierarchy? Understanding the pecking order of chickens can help you add chicks to your flock without creating...

Growing A Perennial Garden

Growing perennial flowers and vegetables in your garden is a great way to add beauty and variety to your outdoor space while also providing a consistent source of fresh produce year after year. Perennials are plants that live for three or more years, and they can add structure and stability to your...

10 Best Tips for Starting Seeds Indoors

Starting seeds indoors can seem intimidating for gardeners who may not have the greenest thumbs, but it's not hard to do with the right preparation and attentive care. Why Start Your Own Seeds? When it is possible to buy healthy seedlings from garden centers and nurseries, why should you bother...

Preparing for Chicks: Setting Up Your Brooder

Spring is chick season. Whether you are just starting a flock, increasing the numbers of chickens you keep or bringing new breeds home to try. Your brooder is critical to give for your chicks security, warmth and shelter they need for their earliest days. How can you set up a brooder to give your...

Winter Poultry Care Tips

Whether you have chickens, ducks, geese or turkeys, poultry is well-equipped for winter weather and colder temperatures, but with a few easy steps you can help ensure their good health and happiness all winter long. How Poultry Cares for Itself When temperatures dip, birds – whether wild birds,...

Cold Weather Safety for Pets

When temperatures drop, we layer up in warm clothes, turn up the furnace, enjoy hot drinks, and take other steps to stay warm and safe. But what about our pets? Practicing good cold weather safety for pets is essential to keep all our furry, scaled, and feathered family members safe and comfortable...

Make the Most of Your Garden with Home Canning

The process of canning and preserving foods takes place for many reasons. For the gardener in all of us, home canning is a way to take all of the hard work that was done outside, and bring it inside. Canning allows us to extend the life of farm to table by ensuring you get the most out of your...

How to Keep Birds and Squirrels Happy

Birds and squirrels don’t have to be enemies in the same yard, even when a bird may chase a squirrel or a squirrel may raid a bird feeder. If you have both birds and squirrels in your yard, you can easily keep everyone safe, happy, and friendly. Why You Want Both Birds and Squirrels in Your...

Summer Flock Care: How to Keep Chickens Cool

Rising summer temperatures can have a dramatic impact on chickens’ health and productivity. Fortunately, it is easy to take steps to keep chickens cool and comfortable even during the harshest heat waves, ensuring a happy, healthy flock all summer long. How Heat Affects Chickens Chickens have no...

Essential Tips to Optimally Prepare Your Horse for Competition

Competing with your horse can be an exhilarating and rewarding experience. Whether you're participating in dressage, show jumping, eventing, or any other equestrian discipline, proper preparation is key to achieving peak performance and ensuring your horse's well-being. Below, we will explore five...

Think Spring! Getting Your Lawn In Shape

As you’re looking out your window, coffee cup in hand and all you see is snow I can understand that it must be hard to think about spring and your lawn. Yet, no matter how many feet of snow are still left, you should start giving some thought about getting your lawn into shape this spring. Like...

Knowing When You Can Plant in the Spring

Quite often, your soil can be either too hard or wet in the spring to even consider trying to plant. Eventually you’ll be able to plant something, but when? Here’s an excellent suggestion to figure out if your soil is ready to be worked: Just a few stepsIf you step onto your soil and your feet...

How Birds Survive Winter – And How We Can Help

Falling temperatures, less food, severe storms and hungry predators all make winter a harsh season for birds, but our feathered friends have many tricks to survive even the worst winter. Savvy backyard birders who understand how birds survive can take easy steps to help so there are more amazing...

How Long Should Pets Be Outdoors In Winter

Many pets love to be outdoors, but the cold, wet, windy conditions of winter can be dangerous, even fatal if pets are kept outside too long. By understanding the hazards of winter weather and how long to stay outside safely, however, every pet owner can help their cats and dogs enjoy time outside...

Adjusting Your Cattle to the Changing Seasons

Acclimating yourself to the frigid winter months is certainly a difficult task following the warmth of summer and fall. Furnace maintenance, firewood stacking, and digging out your long johns all become obligatory chores at this time of year. But adjusting to changing seasons is even more difficult...

Natural Ways to Deter Deer

Deer may be elegant, attractive wildlife, but they can be some of the worst backyard and garden pests as they damage trees, eat gardens and flowerbeds, trample foliage and leave feces throughout the yard. While fences can be effective at keeping deer away, harsh barriers can also be eyesores....

What to Do With Rotten Pumpkins

Pumpkins are popular fall decorations, but eventually they will soften and rot. They don't need to be destined for the trash, however – there are great ways to recycle rotten pumpkins and be sure they are useful even if they aren't the prettiest decorations anymore. 6 Simple Ways to Recycle Rotten...