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You should be able to lift it slightly. It's winter, and for me that means time to fire up the chain saw. As I've gotten older and at least marginally smarter, how I face tree removal has changed.

Investigate Yuletide customs from other countries. Bake and deliver goodies to those who have to work on Christmas Eve and Christmas Day, like nurses, firemen and policemen. Take cookies or fudge to a shut-in neighbor.

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Rumen Movements If a sheep, goat or cow's rumen isn't moving normally, he is or soon will be sick. Look at the color inside the lower eyelid, keeping the eye open for a very short time.

Although your heart goes out to a skinny, sick horse, unless you have enough money to invest in it, it's best to buy a horse in good health. Don't buy a horse with hoof problems , like shelly hooves, that easily crack and split, especially if you'll ride...

Watch your local newspaper or call your local chamber of commerce for dates and times of holiday performances throughout the community. Nowadays “postal elves” sort the letters and single out requests expressing genuine need.

So, my human dad made Hutch an incubator in a big, plastic box. She called him Meegosh. He stayed in the incubator for a whole day, then he moved to the bottle baby crate in the living room where Uzzi and I lived when we were babies.

Digital single-lens reflex camera's (DSLR) have become quite popular,especially since they offer the ability to exchange lenses.Dave's Gardens, bird watching enthusiast 'Mrs_Ed' of Whiteside County, Illinois, purchased her DSLR Pentax model (K100D) so...

Remove any flowers or buds. Acacias have very hard seeds that can lie in the soil for a great many years. To strike cuttings of(fern-like) foliaged Acacias is more difficult as the tiny leaflets tend to hold water and fall very quickly, thus spoiling...

Check out Martok's blogs for more bugs, too. These are just a few of the mind-boggling array of arthropods—invertebrate animals with external skeletons, including spiders and insects—that make their home on our farm and fill me with wonder (or in...

Besides, things like body temperature and respiration also vary slightly from one animal of a given species to others of its kind. If you thought your livestock friend was sick, would you know how to assess his vital signs?

When Mom and Dad are finished outdoors, they soak in the pool they bought for the sheep and my goat friends to drink from while they're in the yard through the day. But there are good ways to stay cool in the summer heat.

The flavor from the dainty buds is just a more delicate version of the leaves' robust flavor and perfectly useful — as are the buds from many other herbs. In Asian and African cuisines, sweet potato leaves have long been popular ingredients in coconut...

In pears, this structure is referred to as accessory tissue because it is not part of the actual ovary. When you core a pear, you remove both the ovary wall and the seeds.The part of the pear that you eat is the hypanthium.

Gradual changes also avoid the complications of sudden changes in diet, some of which can be fatal. Last week, we told you what to feed a lamb or kid; this week we'll show you how to feed them with a bottle .

Roses are probably the most widely used flower for decorating dinnerware. The floral patterns depicted here reflect the art work of great designers and remind us of a history in which flowers played a central part.

A previous article introduced the typical garrigue environment and plants as well as a water-color artist worth to meet. Today we will go for a second stroll in the same area and see what else we can discover.

Don't give up just yet. When you get back, clean the stuffing out of the turkey and get that carcass into a great big pot of water. If you want to use already-cooked, leftover vegetables, put those in the turkey broth after simmering and de-fatting, along...

Instead, we position ourselves a few feet apart while facing one another, rear onto our hind legs and then swoop forward, down and to the side to smash our heads or horns against those of our opponents.

This forms a dense clump. The plant spreads as new tillers grow from the basal nodes of the older ones. They take about 35 days to ripen once the flowers have been pollinated. The flowers are pollinated by the wind.Threshed, unmilled rice before it is...

While you're waiting for baby to be born, collect the stuff you'll need, like a big crate, a human-baby playpen or a collapsible exercise pen for dogs, bedding (fluffy straw for a pen in the barn or pieces of blankets and old towels for a crib in the...

It contains three flower types, with a intermediate trans floret between the ray and the disc flowers. They produce pollen, which gets transferred to other flowers by pollinators and fertilizes the flowers so they can produce seeds.

There are miniature versions of all these breeds except Nigerian Dwarfs; they're registered with another organization, the Miniature Dairy Goat Association . Besides dairy goats, there are brawny meat goats , such as Boers, Kikos and Savannas ; long-coated...

In olden days, even in America, large estates used sheep to keep the grass clipped short. Last week, I told you some of the cool things Uzzi and I learned about wool and sheep. English leaders were outraged and soon outlawed the American wool trade, punishing...

Gynoecium is the term for all of the carpels of a plant. It is here that the pollen grains adhere. The petals form a ring called the corolla. The flower's female parts are arranged so that certain chromosome cells, called gametes can be fertilized to...

Known as “pipping,” this signals the duckling's imminent arrival over the next 12 hours or so. Studying the moms and their little bundles of fluff, I observed that Tica, the younger duck, seemed more enthusiastic about the whole mothering thing than...

« More Mondays with Martok » Then the mom will clean her babe until the next baby starts to be born. It's exciting! These pictures show Bon Bon giving birth to last year's twins.