Identifying, treating, and preventing bumblefoot is key to raising a healthy flock. Learn how to keep your chickens’ feet bumblefoot-free and healthy for a fulfilling life.
Finally, once you are confident about the basics of how theory and action go together, you can get more nuanced and begin to automate your behaviors, so that you don’t have to stop and consciously take care of every detail while you are driving. Internalizing the theory makes the practice...
The chickens that saved Western civilization were discovered, according to legend, by the side of a road in Greece in the first decade of the fifth century B.C. The Athenian general Themistocles, on his way to confront the invading Persian forces, stopped to watch two cocks fighting and su...
You have to mean what you say. You can’t give up. They figure out pretty fast whether you’re bluffing or not. If he comes right back at you, just do it all over again. If you can feel he’s still fighting and trying to hold his head up and get out of your grip, don’t ...
Nevertheless, many new duckling parents give their ducklings unmodified “chick feed.” Problem: chick feed is formulated specifically for baby chickens, and chicks have different nutritional needs than ducklings. As detailed in ourduck food guide article, we recommend one of two options to make sur...
“My wife and I have raised chickens for way over 25 years. We decided to switch to quails after hearing how much better the eggs were, and how much easier it was to keep them. But it was so different to having chickens! We couldn’t work out why our hatch rates were so low, and...
I have a parakeet that is hurting my others, so i am putting her in a smaller separate cage next to the one the other parakeets are in. Do hens lay all year? IN the fall, chickens molt or shed feathers to make room for heavier feathers for winter. They stop laying usually (Ohio) ...
Chickens will lay eggs in the nether. Chickens lay eggs every 5-10 minutes you can keep chickens in the nether if you want. It seems nothing can stop the miracle of life. What happens if you give a chicken a diamond in Minecraft? You cannot give a chicken a diamond. There was an Ap...
However, that acts more as a temporary repellent, and you have to do it frequently to give your plants a fighting chance. Another way to get rid of the adult squash bugs (and perhaps the cucumber beetles) on the spot is to use a biodegradable detergent dish soap. The soapy water works...
loads and loads of extra flour to stop the dough sticking to your hands/board/tea towel Mix the starter and flour, gradually add the water until forms a soft dough, you will probably only need about 6 fl oz. (I added it all, because I didn’t read the recipe properly, and made a...