With the price of eggs soaring, more people are looking into keeping backyard chickens. It's a pastime that grew with the pandemic and has continued ever since.
In Kisaju village, Kajiado East sub-county, Harrison Kanja, a 28-year-old man, is trying to reduce his family's poultry farm's reliance on charcoal as a heat source for their brooding chicks.Instead, ...
All summer long I’ve been treated to the chatter of swallows nesting in my back porch. Even now, five chicks from a pair’s second brood are practising their first flights around the back garden.
I had enough things to do. Somehow, I ended up being the keeper of a cat I never wanted, not to mention the two children I ...
A brooder pen, a large heating plate ... Maybe I’m coming around to the idea of being a chicken keeper. But still late at night, when I come downstairs for a drink of water and I look over at the cast ...
After writing about “cuddling cows” recently, imagine my surprise to hear about senior-aged people gaining benefits from ...
The retina of warm-blooded vertebrates is believed to be incapable of neural regeneration. Here we provide evidence that the retina of postnatal chickens has the potential to generate new neurons. In ...
Wondering how to heat a greenhouse for free? We list the cheapest way to heat a greenhouse in winter and keep temperatures steady. Greenhouses can be interesting environments to grow in. This is ...
Certain Häagen-Dazs ice cream bars sold at Kroger and Giant Eagle stores nationwide are being recalled because of the possible presence of an undeclared ingredient. Hooters CEO Neil Kiefer announced ...