Saturday Linkages: Cat Hugs

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A tip for bored chickens . . .

Yet more ideas from the poultry seminar I attended last week. Behavioral specialist Richard Blatchford of UC Cooperative Extension had a great idea for entertaining hens like ours that are confined to a run: give them a bale of straw and don’t even undo the strings. I used to cut the strings and toss them the bale in sections. Keeping it intact keeps them occupied for a much longer time. They’ve been obsessed with the bale for days now and are sl...

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Saturday Linkages: Collecting Seaweed, Microfarming and DIY Bike Lanes

...inst #Salmonella: https://t.co/G2IgoBuG78 pic.twitter.com/BCATGNFEot — The Poultry Site (@thepoultrysite) November 14, 2016 This is the kind of language I hear from people who are getting on with the work to be done… https://t.co/JYXJZUHD0w — Root Simple (@rootsimple) November 19, 2016 Yup. This is what we have to do more of: Guerrilla Bike Lanes: San Francisco Makes Illicit Infrastructure Permanent https://t.co/JnP88SPAp3 — Root Simple (@rootsimp...

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