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Black oil sunflower seeds are by far the best food to offer birds in any season. These seeds have slightly thinner shells and higher oil content than other types of sunflower seeds, making them more efficient and nutritious food. They will attract a wide range of hungry birds and can be offered in platform, tube or hopper feeders as well as sprinkled on the ground or a table or railing. Many birds crave salt as an essential mineral, particularly in the winter when roads are regularly salted. Unfortunately, feeding on the side of the road can be deadly for birds, and offering salt crystals at your feeders will help keep them safe. Create a strong saltwater solution and let it evaporate in a shallow dish to make larger crystals, or pour it over a log or stump if there is no danger of freezing. Salt can kill grass and make it difficult to grow plants, so keep the salt you’re offering the birds well away from gardens and other plantings. To keep birds healthy, only offer salt in minimal amounts.

Feeding the birds in winter can be a rewarding way to enjoy birding in your backyard when the weather outside is less than ideal. If you offer the best winter bird foods, you will find a greater variety of birds visiting your feeders even on the coldest days. While you want to be sure to offer the foods that your specific backyard birds like best, these top foods are excellent choices for many common winter birds. All of these foods offer great nutrition, and their high caloric content will give birds plenty of energy to build fat reserves for frigid winter nights. Peanuts are a high calorie, fat-rich nut that appeals to many backyard birds, including jays, titmice, nuthatches, and chickadees. Because the nuts don’t freeze, they are perfect for winter feeding, whether you offer whole or shelled peanuts. Peanuts are also popular to mix in suet for winter feed. Do not, however, offer birds flavored peanuts or any peanuts with candy or chocolate coatings.

The Thoroughbred is a horse breed best known for its use in horse racing. Although the word thoroughbred is sometimes used to refer to any breed of purebred horse, it technically refers only to the Thoroughbred breed. Thoroughbreds are considered "hot-blooded" horses that are known for their agility, speed, and spirit. The Thoroughbred as it is known today was developed in 17th- and 18th-century England, when native mares were crossbred with imported Oriental stallions of Arabian, Barb, and Turkoman breeding. All modern Thoroughbreds can trace their pedigrees to three stallions originally imported into England in the 17th century and 18th century and to a larger number of foundation mares of mostly English breeding. During the 18th and 19th centuries, the Thoroughbred breed spread throughout the world; they were imported into North America starting in 1730 and into Australia, Europe, Japan and South America during the 19th century. Millions of Thoroughbreds exist today, and around 100,000 foals are registered each year worldwide. Thoroughbreds are used mainly for racing, but are also bred for other riding disciplines such as show jumping, combined training, dressage, polo, and fox hunting. They are also commonly crossbred to create new breeds or to improve existing ones, and have been influential in the creation of the Quarter Horse, Standardbred, Anglo-Arabian, and various warm blood breeds. Thoroughbred racehorses perform with maximum exertion, which has resulted in high accident rates and health problems such as bleeding from the lungs. Other health concerns include low fertility, abnormally small hearts and a small hoof-to-body-mass ratio. There are several theories for the reasons behind the prevalence of accidents and health problems in the Thoroughbred breed, and research is ongoing.

Raising chicks is fun, educational and is one of the most rewarding things you will do! Chicks are cute and endearing, but they do have some special needs and we hope to guide you through the process of raising a baby chick to a hen. Once your chicks arrive place the container inside the brooder if you can, you don’t want them escaping! Take them out one by one, dip their beaks into the water and then the food and place them under the heater. This is an important step. You have oriented them to food and water – they will remember that and now be able to feed and water at will. Even if they don’t all remember, at least a couple will and the rest will follow suit. Now, as much as you would like to play and hold them, let them rest up, it has been a long day for them! Check them periodically to see how they are doing. An easy way to tell if the temperature is just right in the brooder is to watch the chicks. If you are using the heat plate it should barely touch their backs when they are underneath it, their own warmth and the radiant heat from the plate will keep them plenty warm and cozy. Once they have settled in, you can start to handle them. A little and often works well for me. A good way to start is to put some crumbles in the palm of your hand and rest your hand on the floor of the brooder. At first they will be hesitant, but their curiosity will get the better of them and they will soon be running all over your hand. They are very quick, so if you pick them up be careful they don’t surprise you and jump/fall from your hand. Try to ensure a soft landing on bedding, straw or such. With this in mind, you will need to keep their house as clean as possible. It doesn’t have to be pristine; in fact a small amount of poop exposure is actually beneficial. However the bedding will need to be freshened up a couple of times a day as wet, poopy bedding is paradise for some nasty bugs. Water and food should be changed as frequently as needed but at least twice a day. A thorough house-keeping should be done as needed, but if you are diligent on ‘poop patrol’ it should be weekly. Something called brooder pneumonia can be caused by damp, moldy condition of the bedding, there is no cure and severely affected chicks can die – keep it clean and dry. Remember everyone does it a bit differently; this is a guide, not a mandate! The only non-negotiable is keeping the brooder clean.

A rooster is the leader of the flock, (flocks without roosters have leaders as well, just not as fierce). It’s his “job” to watch over his flock, protect them from predators, and help them to find food. Our rooster “Lucky” announces when it’s time to get up, time to nap, time to dust bath, time for the mid afternoon nap, time to go back to the roost and the halfway point of the night. He is always watching for the hawk that constantly terrorizes our flock, ready to fight this creature to the death if necessary to protect his hens. It is also his job to mount and impregnate each hen of laying age daily, insuring the future of the flock through procreation. Crowing can be used as an announcement to neighboring fowl that a rooster is in residence and this is his territory and hens. They likely called back and forth to let the other flocks know where they were. Oftentimes you will hear them crowing back and forth to each other. Chickens have a superb sense of hearing so the frequent crowing will give a rooster an idea if the rival flock and rooster are moving away or moving nearer. Their hearing is so acute that they can determine where a noise comes from with almost pinpoint accuracy! Making other potential rivals aware of his presence probably avoided a few fights between rival roosters. Although they will fight, they don’t really like too, the potential for injury, death or defeat are great. An injured chicken would be easy prey for a larger predator in the wild. It has been theorized that the morning crowing ritual is initiated by a morning surge of testosterone in the rooster. Although just a theory at present, this idea may be a good one. A rooster is at his most sexually potent in the morning and early evening, both times when crowing is usually heard more frequently. Some roosters will crow after the hen has laid an egg, while we can’t be sure perhaps this is a way of letting the competition know his hens’ are fertile and so is he!

Amazing Group Of Chickens Looking For Food In Grass

Adorable Herd Of Chickens Eating Morning Grass

Adorable Baby Boy Made Trick on His Two Golden Dogs

It was marvelous moment to capture this video for my cat while it was on my desk and suddenly it started to fall asleep on my room table