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  • Essential Oils and Cats Don’t Mix

    Essential Oils and Cats Don’t Mix

    I’ve written before about the potential dangers of essential oils when it comes to pets. Recently a flurry of posts has appeared online about beloved pet cats becoming critically ill when exposed to essential oils through home diffusers. These heartbreaking stories serve … Read More

    Health & Well-being

    by Stephanie L. Tourles
  • Goat Milk Can Be Good for You

    Goat Milk Can Be Good for You

    Goat Milk as “Medicine” The healthful aspect of goat milk is as legendary as goats’ aroma and their preference for tin cans but with a more positive spin and a lot more basis in truth. A few savvy doctors do, in fact, prescribe goat milk … Read More

    Farm Animals, Horses & Pets

    by Jerry Belanger and Sara Thomson Bredesen
  • The Alaskan Huskies of Denali National Park

    The Alaskan Huskies of Denali National Park

    Alaska’s Denali National Park Alaska’s Denali National Park, which is more than 6 million acres in size, has always been home to sled dogs. On a trip to Alaska last summer, my husband and I visited the sled dogs owned by the National Park Service … Read More

    Farm Animals, Horses & Pets

    by Janet Vorwald Dohner
  • Learning “Chicken”: 10 Tips for Watching Your Flock

    Learning “Chicken”: 10 Tips for Watching Your Flock

    When I first got chickens, I was instantly drawn to them. I wanted to learn everything I could about my new, tiny balls of fluff. As I saw it, I was planning on having these chickens around for a long time, so connecting with them … Read More

    Farm Animals, Horses & Pets

    by Melissa Caughey
  • Playing Possom, Part 2: Life with Rescued Joeys

    Playing Possom, Part 2: Life with Rescued Joeys

    It’s been a month since we became surrogate parents to seven little opossums whose mama was killed by our livestock guardian dogs. Since then we’ve learned a thing or two about what makes baby possums tick. Opossum babies, called joeys, can live for a time … Read More

    Farm Animals, Horses & Pets

    by Sue Weaver
  • Train Like an Editor

    Train Like an Editor

    I’ve been clicker-training horses for years. I understand the science. But revising a novel under the guidance of my editor Rebecca Davis, I understood for the first time how it feels to be trained using positive reinforcement. Here’s what it’s like to be edited by … Read More

    Farm Animals, Horses & Pets

    by Jessie Haas
  • Give a Goat a Guinness? Treating Livestock with Beer

    Give a Goat a Guinness? Treating Livestock with Beer

    Beer for goats? Yes, indeed! Beer, in fact, for many other farmyard creatures as well. Horses, sheep, goats, cows, and pigs all benefit from a good dark beer when they aren’t feeling up to snuff. We learned about beer for livestock 10 years ago when … Read More

    Farm Animals, Horses & Pets

    by Sue Weaver
  • The Case for Coexistence: Why We Need to Understand Animal Predators

    The Case for Coexistence: Why We Need to Understand Animal Predators

    Our first interactions with wild predators took place in 1976, when we moved to our small farm in Michigan and bought a box of chicks at the local feed store. We learned very quickly that we weren’t smarter than a raccoon. Confronted on several mornings … Read More

    Farm Animals, Horses & Pets

    by Janet Vorwald Dohner
  • The Bears and the Bees: Protecting Backyard Hives

    The Bears and the Bees: Protecting Backyard Hives

    You don’t have to study today’s headlines for long to notice an uptick in the number of encounters between humans and animal predators. Over the past century, the range and populations of smaller predators such as coyotes, raccoons, and foxes have expanded throughout much of … Read More

    Farm Animals, Horses & Pets

    by Janet Vorwald Dohner
  • Postcard from the Backyard: Calving Season Is Here!

    Postcard from the Backyard: Calving Season Is Here!

    Calving season starts early, up at our little homestead in the Adirondacks. Three of our Scottish Highlands — Solstice, Iona, and Fiona — gave birth this year, with the earliest calf arriving on March 19th. We called the first one Jubilee, a … Read More

    Inside Storey

    by Carleen Madigan
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