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Horse Breeding for Beginners

Equine breeding is undoubtedly an exciting venture for horse owners. Humans develop unbelievable bonds with their horses and deciding to pursue breeding only furthers this relationship. It’s a big decision that requires considering many different factors, including the costliness of being a horse...

Keeping your Pet Healthy During the Winter

As it gets cold outside, the potential for harsh weather conditions requires some extra care for your canine and feline friends. Here are some tips to help your pet remain safe and comfortable during the winter months ahead. Provide fresh, clean water at all times. Frozen water in outside bowls is...

Easing your Pet Into the Transition of a New Home

Easing yourself into a new home is a large feat, both physically and emotionally. The stresses of packing up, moving, and finally accepting your new living space as your home can take many months if not longer. It’s important to recognize that this exciting, yet stressful transition can also have...

Preparing Your Horse For Winter

Everyone that has a horse, who also lives in cold winter temperatures, has a guest house where their horse can sit next to a warm fire, read books and smoke out of the finest hand-crafted pipe.Or not…Much of the time, horses are stuck in extremely cold temperatures with very little to protect them...

Walking Your Dog: 4 Simple Ways to Keep it Interesting

Walking your dog is an essential activity but that doesn't mean you can't keep it interesting for both you and your dog. These tips below can help you achieve this while keeping safe, too: Go to new placesAs I’m sure you’ve witnessed, your dog loves to experience new sights and smells. Taking a...

Keeping your Hens Healthy and Laying This Fall

Autumn is upon us and it's time to say hello to fresh air and goodbye to stifling hot temperatures. Of course, if you’re raising chickens for eggs, you will need to take a few steps to ensure your hens stay in production during the fall and winter months. Molting or feather loss is a natural...

Tips to Make Autumn a Happy and Healthy Time for You and Your Pet

Realize that the nights are getting colder and make sure your outdoor pet has a warm, dry shelter that is elevated off the ground, insulated for warmth, and draft free. Add some soft, thick bedding for comfort. Outdoor pets require extra calories to keep warm, so ask you veterinarian whether you...

Fall is Prime Time to Begin a Supplemental Feeding Program for Deer

A buck can have the best genetics in the world, but without the proper nutrition, he’ll never achieve his potential. One way to stack the deck in his favor is to supplement his nutrition. Fall is an excellent time to begin this. But before we talk about how to initiate a supplemental feeding...

Tips For Feeding Your Hunting Dog

A large part of having a hunting dog that performs well rests with how much energy he has. Much of your hunting dog’s energy, and how long he has it for, involves the diet that you keep him on. Here are some tips for keeping you high-performance hunting dog in tip-top shape:High protein, High...

The Best Fabrics for Hunting

Like any sport, hunting requires special clothing and fabrics. These fabrics are designed to increase your ability to hunt with more success and safety. Choosing hunting clothing and fabrics largely depends on the region, weather, and game being hunted. These are important factors and are always...

Show Season: Tips for Preparing Your Animals

Livestock shows are a great chance to show off your hard work, but to accurately represent your skill you will need to be very well prepared. Show animals are usually creatures of habit, and taking them out of their typical environment for a show can have a serious impact on their behavior and...

Plants that are Poisonous to Horses

There are literally hundreds of plants that are either outright, or potentially, toxic to horses. There are several factors that contribute to toxicity. First, the plant must contain a substance that is toxic to that particular species of animal (susceptibility). Secondly, the amount of plant (and...

Deer Nutrition Tips for the Summertime

Although deer adapt pretty well to changes in temperature, there are things you can do to give them a better chance of surviving the summer heat. Here are a few tips: If you raise deer, provide access to shelter and shade to prevent heat stress. Wild deer can usually find shade under...

Why It’s Important to Have Supplements Always Available for Your Cattle

Having nutritional supplements always available for your cattle to utilize during critical times can pay dividends. Not meeting nutritional requirements of heifers and cows during the last third of pregnancy and the first 60 days of lactation, for example, can cost producers great economic loss,...

Basic Showlamb Nutrition

Feeding lambs for show involves some basic principles of nutrition.Whether lambs are fed commercially for market, or diets intended to produce specific physical responses, we must remember that lambs are ruminants.It is of upmost importance that we maintain rumen health and function. Feeding grain...

Tips for Controlling Flies in Feed Lots and Pastures

Warmer weather almost always guarantees an increase in the number of flies that can adversely affect cattle performance and health. Here are some quick tips to help you control flies in feedlots and pastures: In Feed Lots Sanitation—Flies need manure and other materials for laying their eggs....

The Role of Antioxidants

Antioxidants such as vitamin E are beneficial, but how much does your horse actually need?We know antioxidants are important for health, but few people really know what they are or what they do. Simply put, antioxidants fight free radicals. So what are free radicals? Think back to your high school...

Healthy Does for Healthy Kids

The birth of healthy kids starts with healthy does. It goes without saying that breeding a doe that is in top condition will give you the best odds for producing strong, healthy kids. A good breeding program begins with good management and superior nutrition prior to breeding, during gestation and...

Tips for Creating a Living Space for your Baby Chicks

Newly hatched chicks, ducklings, goslings and turkey poults require that their very basic needs for shelter, warmth, food and water be met in order to survive. Good care and management with a bit of TLC will go a long way in providing a healthy start for your young flock. Following are some useful...

Tips for Preparing your Rabbit for the Cold Winter Weather

Can you believe it? Once again, winter is just around the bend. Take advantage of these beautiful autumn days to make preparations so that when Jack Frost makes an appearance, you’ll know your rabbits have everything they need to stay healthy and happy. Sound Management • Although a rabbit...

Management Tips for First Calf Heifers

First-calf heifers are among the most challenged members of the herd. They require special care to successfully make the transition from birthing their first calf to becoming a reproductively efficient cow that produces a healthy calf each year and breeds back early. In a nutshell, that is the goal...

Purina® FeedGuard® Nutrition System Provides Feed Safety Peace of Mind

It’s important for horse owners to understand how ingredients, feed safety and quality issues can affect their horses’ health and performance. Oftentimes, people look at thefeed tag for information on which to base their feed buying decision. Unfortunately, there is generally little information on...

Doggy Danger: Beware of these Holiday Plants

The Halloween-Thanksgiving-Christmas holiday trifecta is traditionally characterized by festive and sometimes flamboyant displays of decorations. While many of these decorations are considered benign to the health and safety of you and your family, you may want to consider how they affect your pets...

What You Should Know For Getting Your Horse Shod for Fall/Winter

It is generally accepted that finding the right horseshoe is extremely important for riding in temperate climates in the winter. Riding outdoors in the winter demands a special type of shoe that prevents your horse from serious injury. A variety of different factors must be taken into account when...

Choosing The Right Dog Food

Whether you've acquired a new dog or whether you've decided you want to change your current dog’s food, you should do some research. Different dog foods have different ingredients that are essential for the health of different aged and sized dogs. Here are some ways to conduct your research:Look...