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Feeding Your Chickens To ensure a constant supply of deliciously nutritious eggs, feed your chickens a free-ranging grain mix with additional egg grit (medium is good). Shell grit assists with egg shell production and helps to grind up food in the gut. Each chicken will eat approx 1kg of food each week. Most of your left over food scraps is …
Housing Your Chickens Chickens are great self-sufficient backyard pets. As long as they have a dry, clean, draught-free hen house to sleep in, a secure yard to roam and fresh water available they should be happy living in your backyard. Due to a hen’s preference to roost at night it is recommended that the hen-house be fitted with perches. Nesting …
Healthy Chickens are Happy Chickens Parasite, lice and fleas can all be irritating to chickens. Prevention is the key to avoiding dealing with a sick chook. There are many options available, including natural alternatives. If you suspect there is a problem (ie looking off-colour and/or not laying) flip the chicken over and have a look at its underside. Chickens will …
Understanding Canine Body Language Unfortunately, our dogs can’t tell us how they are feeling, but by reading their body language you can get a pretty good idea. You recognise your dog barking as you return home as a joyful greeting, if he whines whilst you’re eating, you know he wants to share, but do you know how to read his …
A DOGS TONGUE is a radiator, a water-lapper, a healer of wounds, a food conveyor, a register of tastes, a texture sensor, and the wet equivalent of a dog’s handshake. It has more responsibilities than any other part of a dog’s anatomy – excluding the brain. And strangely enough, for all its responsibilities and activities, it is one of the …
A Dogs Nose Dogs rely on their sense of smell to interpret their world around them – similar to the way humans depend on their sight for everyday activities. A dog’s nose works by interpreting as much information as a pair of human eyes. A dog’s nose nose works by smelling an object or another animal, which allows them to …
As more people expand their Eco-conscious outlook to include their animal companions, the pet industry is slowly responding with all kinds of innovative green products for dogs and cats that not only enhance the animals health, but are also environmentally responsible and sustainable. These products encompass nearly every area of animal care, from food and accessories to pest control, waste …
Altho’ it’s a topic non of us really want to think about, it’s an eventuality for those of us that share our lives with our beloved animals – at some time or another, we will have to endure the lose of a family pet. The sorrow we feel when we loose a pet is very real and it can take …
Carbohydrates in Dry Dog Food The trend toward eliminating grains and substituting potatoes in commercial and home-prepared foods for dogs is a source of controversy between dog nutritionists, veterinarians and manufacturers alike. As more and more people continue to subscribe to the no-grain philosophy, there is often disagreement whether potatoes provide comparable nutritional value to grains. Carbohydrates are present in …
