If you’ve ever gone out to your rabbit hutch only to find your sweet bunny’s food dish full and hutch tray empty? It's a good chance that your are seeing what GI stasis in rabbits looks like. Time is of the essence. Keeping our rabbits GI system in tip-top shape is dependent on us feeding proper food, in the right amounts. In addition to the pellets you add to her feeder, ...
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How to Make Chicken Feed for Layers {17.5%}
There are plenty of choices for layer feed that we can purchase from our local farm supply store that your flock will thrive on. However, not all of them can boast a lack of genetically-modified ingredients, and the ones that do are pretty pricey. There's only so many foods we can give our chickens from our kitchens and without the right foods protein levels won't be met, which ...
How to Process a Fresh Mint Harvest
Springtime is prime time for harvesting herbs for medicines and teas. The temperate weather allows delicate and not-so delicate herbs to grow abundantly in the garden, and if you are growing mint, plentiful harvests of fresh mint are sure to follow. Mint plants produce and multiply like crazy and trying to figure out all the ways we can use it can be pretty tricky. ...
How to Know What to Feed Chickens
Keeping chickens is one of the easiest ways to grow nutritious food on your homestead. These feathered friends don't need much if they have space to graze, a place to sleep and lay eggs, and of course, proper nutrition. Here is some info on what to feed chickens, including specific things you can do to feed them well, and inexpensively. What Can Chickens Eat? Chickens ...
How to Make a DIY Rabbit Feeder
Sometimes, you just need a vacation, amiright? But with animals to care for, it's sometimes hard to get away. A diy rabbit feeder can be a great help for those times you need (or want) to go out of town for a few days. When we first got our rabbits, we never realized how tied to our home we would be, caring for them and making sure they had all of their needs met. While ...
Top 10 Things to Bring Home with Your New Pet Rabbit
Every time we bring a new animal home, it's the beginning of a new chapter in our lives. We will now share a relationship with a new small creature. We think of all the possibility of owning and befriending our new pet rabbit. Our hearts soar at all the prospects of play time, binkies (if we know what they are!), and cuddles. It was such a great day on December 10th, 2011. ...
Reusing Plastic Water Bottles to Make Easy Drip Waterers
If you live in an area where you experience summer middle-of-the-day scorching temperatures that causes your garden to wither and wilt, you may find that some of your plants may need more watering than others. Reusing plastic water bottles for drip waterers may fit the bill, and do well to provide your plants much needed water. Reusing Plastic Water Bottles in the ...
6 Simple Tomato Growing Tips for a Great Harvest
If growing tomatoes has been a thorn in your side and it seems like everyone else is able to grow them without even applying any tomato plant care rules, this post is for you! I've been there too, so I'm sharing my best tomato growing tips with you. For years, I would plant my tomato transplants that I bought from the local garden center, along with bags of manure....and ...
A Simple Method for Hardening Off Plants Easily
Now that you've started your seeds indoors, you are wondering when it's time to plant them outdoors. There is something that needs to be done before you do that, called hardening off plants. This will aid your little plants in making their way to their final destination, your garden. What Is Hardening Off Plants? Grown indoors, seedlings have live somewhat of a charmed ...
When to Transplant Seedlings Outdoors, Plus Helpful Instructions
Beside starting seeds indoors, planting your seedlings is one of the most pleasurable parts of gardening outdoors. Knowing when to transplant seedlings is critical to whether they do well outdoors. Equally important is knowing each step to planting seedlings outdoors. By the end of this article, you will be equipped to introduce your precious little plants to your garden ...
How to Encourage Friendliness and Trust in Baby Goat Kids
Many say that bottle fed goat kids are much more friendly than their dam-raised counterparts, but if you are more inclined to allow mama to raise her babies, here is a way that can help encourage trust between you and your baby goat kids on your homestead. I changed my mind about only allowing my dams to raise the kids when I thought back to three years ago, when we ...
How to Get Free Plants Through Plant Propagation
As rewarding as gardening is, it can cost you a chunk of change if you don't watch where and how you spend your money. Thankfully, gardening doesn't have to break the bank if you are into gardening on the cheap. Inexpensive options abound at your local dollar store, and even in your own garden when you learn plant propagation. Propagating (also known as cloning or planting ...