Here’s how to treat severe cases of bumblefoot in chickens: Step 1: Follow steps 1 through 3 above to prep the area and your chicken. Step 2: Once the skin on the foot pad has softened, begin to gently peel off the black scab (the lesion on the skin from the internal infection)...
If you have some pet birds, but are unbeknownst of their gender, this farmland trick will help you determine if they're male or female birds. Use this technique for any kind of birds… parrots, pigeons, doves, chickens… any bird! You just need some copper wire, some string and a wine...
Having multiple males in your mixed-sex backyard flock will cause your adult males to fight endlessly if there are females around to compete over. Separate pens would be required once the males reach mating age in order to prevent injury via fighting or over-mating. Also, a female:male ratio...
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...
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...
A person can deduce that to stop adding to the deficit, additional taxes of at least 5% or 6% of GDP (which is equivalent to 12% to 14% of wages) would be needed. Doubling payroll taxes might provide enough, but that cannot happen. Corporate income taxes collected in recent years have...
Also, during that first period, Mike showed me how to grow food, deal with the chickens and goats, make repairs to the property. In the evenings, we would read to each other, some English books and some Spanish. For the Spanish books, he would read a little and then translate for me...
Chickens will wander aimlessly but will avoid falling off of cliffs. This is interesting as chickens are immune to fall damage, flailing their wings as they slowly descend to the ground. If damaged the chicken will run quickly away from the source of the damage. If a chicken is in a loade...
Lost Appetite…try for just one day to stop being a “tight-assed and a stuck-up prick”. Reply JRae on 1/31/12 at 1:02 pm Gahh can’t delete- that was meant for a comment from last August, and other people already addressed them. Whoops. Ah well. Love the post, going to ...
“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...