Self Watering Containers
...e attractive pot if you’ve got the dough to spend. Check out our instructions on how beautify your self watering container. Now, apartment homesteaders, get out there and grow your own food!...
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I’ve Flown the Coop
...I’m at a two day poultry seminar sponsored by the California Department of Food & Agriculture. The point of my attendance is to learn good husbandry practices and share them with you, our dear readers. I’ll break down the voluminous information into a series of future blog posts. The takeaways from yesterday’s session: Buy chickens that have been vaccinated for Marek’s disease. This is the most common problem with backyard chickens and it’s entire...
076 Keeping Your Poultry Healthy with Dr. Maurice Pitesky
...is an Assistant Specialist in Cooperative Extension for Poultry Health and Food Safety Epidemiology at the University of California Davis where he researches disease surveillance, food safety management, and other topics related to poultry health. He also does education and outreach to backyard and commercial poultry owners. During the podcast he mentions the UC Davis poultry resource website, a backyard poultry census that you can take part in, a...
Saturday Tweets: The Weather, Moletakers and More Cats
...k. #DeathToFalseTruffleOil https://t.co/W0McFqq78f — Josh Lurie-Food GPS (@foodgps) September 16, 2017 If you are driving at night, stop your car, turn off the ignition, and throw your keys into a sewer. https://t.co/qZ41i15RPH — Bicycle Lobby (@BicycleLobby) September 23, 2017 Plastic bollards should be regarded as temporary bandaids waiting for a more permanent design to be funded. https://t.co/uHb9yZ2Aho — Jim Charlier (@TheCharlier) September...
Our Radioactive Cat
...tments, a special diet or pills, just won’t work well for him. Waiting for food. Radioactive iodine therapy involves one shot and several days at a treatment facility to let the radioactivity levels subside. It doesn’t cause the cat any pain, but they can’t be around people or other animals for a few days. When he gets back we have to minimize contact with him for awhile and scoop out his litter into a bucket that has to sit for a few weeks before...