You can also incorporate these sounds indoors. "Instead of an alarm, you could set your wake-up signal to a bird song," Pratt suggests. "You could also set bird songs to play on a speaker in your office during part of the day or on earbuds." 14. Walk barefoot. iStock If you have...
Make sure you give them a decent reward when they come to you – they’ll begin to associate the “come here” command with good things. If you use the term “come here” for negative things such as bath time or getting their nails trimmed they’re less likely to obey when called sin...
Other items to add the broken pieces to are mason jars, backsplash, birdbaths, plant pots, or small tables. You will need a paste or grout to seal it all off to avoid any sharp edges being exposed. Any of these projects are sure to be the center attention of any room, big or smal...
They employ priests who teach us not to worry; like the lilies in the field and the birds in the sky and when they meet someone living like a bird in the sky they don’t think it’s normal. I also told the salesman that my hobby was chemistry. He remembered a little from his scho...
1. When you build your coop think about creating an isolation ward. A real farmer would just cull a sick bird to keep the flock safe. For those of us with just a few hens this is more difficult and it’s great to have a place to separate, at a distance, a sick bird just in ca...
Why you shouldn’t break the ice on the birdbath with a hammer It’s a bit parky round these parts, so I reloaded the spadgers’ nuts, which is more fun in the interludes between the snow rather than in the anticipated blizzards to come. I figured I’d break the ice on the birdba...