Everything You Need to Know About Deer Plots
Deer plots – also called hunting, feeding, food or harvest plots, depending on their purpose – can easily be managed to keep deer healthy and help them reach...
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Teaching Your Children to Be Comfortable Around Pet Reptiles
From turtles and tortoises to snakes, geckos and iguanas, reptiles can be great pets, even for kids. Unfortunately, many children are squeamish around reptiles...
Fun Facts and Helpful Tips About Betta Fish
Bettas are popular for small aquariums, but how much do you really know about these fantastic fish? Learning more about betta fish can help you decide they are...
Essentials for Backyard Birding
Getting started as a backyard birder is easy, inexpensive and enjoyable. Birders need to meet birds' needs in their backyard as well as their own birding needs...
How to Control Mites and Lice on Chickens
Mites and lice can be troublesome parasites in any chicken flock, causing a range of problems and decreasing the flock's productivity. Recognizing a parasite...
Getting Rid of Pet Urine Smell – For Good!
Every pet owner has to deal with the occasional indoor "accident" whether it is before a young pet is properly housetrained, consequences of an illness, the...
Plants to Help Repel Mosquitoes
Your garden and landscape may be lovely, but it can be hard to enjoy your outdoor living spaces or even do the necessary chores to keep them looking their best...
Five Factors of Hay Quality
To most individuals passing through rural areas, hay seems simple. Its dry, tough, and it feeds livestock. However there’s more to hay than meets the eye. Hay...
The Importance of Fats in Horse Nutrition
It is well known even to non-horse people that horses are herbivores, but just grazing or feeding a horse a diet of hay alone will not provide them the proper...
How to Prune Roses
Roses are beautiful blooms and one of the most popular flowers in gardens and landscaping. With proper pruning, you can keep your roses looking their very best...
Attracting Different Types of Birds
The ability to attract a variety of wild birds to your backyard can be accomplished by offering food, water, shelter and nesting sites. • Food: Placing a...
If You're Shaving Your Dog – Don't!
Many dog owners believe shaving is good for their pet, especially to cool off in summer, but even one shave could do irreparable damage to a dog's coat and...
Road Trip for Cats
Any pet owner knows that dogs and cats are radically different, which is never more obvious than when faced with the prospect of a car trip. While dogs are...
5 Tips to Attract Orioles
Orioles are popular and distinct backyard birds, but they can also be difficult to attract because of their unique preferences. Backyard birders who know how...
Parrot Beak Care 101
Your parrot's beak is its most important tool, essential for preening, eating, climbing, drinking, prying, playing and more. A bird's beak must be in top...
West Nile Virus in Horses
West Nile virus can be a dangerous infection for many animals, and recognizing West Nile virus in horses and how to treat it can help all horse lovers protect...
Easing your Pet Into the Transition of a New Home
Easing yourself into a new home is a large feat, both physically and emotionally. The stresses of packing up, moving, and finally accepting your new living...
6 Ways to Keep Ticks Out of Your Yard Naturally
Ticks are more than just annoying, biting insects. They can also transmit a number of scary diseases, including lyme disease, Rocky Mountain spotted fever,...
Does Your Cat Have Ear Mites?
Ear mites can be uncomfortable, even painful, for your cat, and recognizing the signs of ear mites is essential so you can get your feline friend the proper...
Caring for Your Ferret
Ferrets can be wonderful pets, but they can also be demanding and challenging if you don't understand your ferret's unique needs. By learning their quirky...
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...
Gardening With Hoop Houses
Hoop houses are a quick, easy type of greenhouse, but are they right for your gardening? Learning more about this technique can help you decide if your green...
The Importance of a Healthy Hoof
Horse hoof care is an important issue for all horse owners. While a horse may be able to sustain injury or illness in many parts of its body, the hoof bears...
Healthy Snacking For Your Pets
The problem with keeping pets healthy is that often times they eat as much as we do. Our pets love snacking just as much any human out there. If you took the...
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...
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Ice Melt vs Your Pets Paws
Winter walkways can be dangerous, but slips, falls and slides are not the only concerns pet owners should have about icy paths. Different ice melt chemicals...