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Rabbits are a great addition to your small farm and can live happily with quite a few other farm animals. Water Rabbits can drink out of two main things, rabbit water bottles and buckets. Keep their water nice and clean. Food Rabbit food should be put in a rabbit feeder or bowl, rabbit feeders are …
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Doves are beautiful and awesome pets, they can be easily tamed and will sit often on your arm or shoulder. Turns out care is quite simple! Water Doves usually can use any type of waterer as long as they can reach into it. I like to use chicken waterers for my sizeable flock but for …
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Chickens are probably the most common type of poultry. These animals are good egg layers and easy to maintain. This article applies to our staple chicken and you must realize special care may be required for exotic breeds like onagadori and featherless. Water Chickens have been documented doing some pretty… er… stupid things, so don’t …
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In the picture above it is easy to tell the gender of each chicken, but for a young pullet or cockerel you may not be able to tell so easily. No one wants two young roosters together in a small cage. And you may live in in a non-rooster-friendly neighborhood, you don’t want to figure …
Pheasants tend to be docile, pretty animals (at least the males) and I’ll give you a basic idea of them and their care. There are two main different types of pheasants: practical (ringneck and mutations thereof) used for meat, and ornamental (like Argus, Lady Amherst, or Goldens). his focused mostly on the Chrysolophus pheasants: Golden …
My first post here on this blog will be about quail and their basic needs. I am known among my family for being obsessed with quail so be prepared for a lot of future quail blog posts. This post does not apply to the miniature button quail (here is a link to my article about …
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Where The Chickens Roost