I’ve  written about receiving shipments of 52  pheasants in the US mail. From what I’ve read online at many of the hatchery sites, it seems that the smallest shipment is 25 birds. In this number, the birds generate enough body heat to survive there one or two day trip.
While raising pheasants for release requires one
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The tweets (Twitter) this week chronicled the anticipated arrival of 52 pheasant hen chicks.  I thought they were shipping Tuesday, but instead, they shipped Wednesday and arrived Friday.  Two travel days meant they might be stressed and indeed, 3 died in transit.
Just as I did with last year’s chicks, I place them in the  brooder
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An effort is under way to change Iowa City law to allow residents to keep chickens in their backyards.
Iowa City resident Stacey Driscoll started an online petition Tuesday calling on the city to allow people to keep up to five hens, no roosters, in residential areas.
The self-described avid backyard gardener said she’d heard of people
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The warmer weather may find you spending more time behind the wheel of your tractor. We’ve put together a list of the top ten songs about life on a tractor to help you tractor chores go faster.

While perhaps best known as a food writer, Pollan penned “A Place of My Own” in 1997, subtitled “The Education of an Inexperienced Builder.”
In my own case, there came a moment, a few years shy of my fortieth birthday, on the verge of making several large changes in my life– when the notion of a
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You may have seen some blog posts and other news stories about a possible buffalo chicken wing shortage for the Super Bowl earlier this year.
But the National Chicken Council released this press release, assuring consumers that there was a large enough supply.

The National Chicken Council estimates that more than one billion wing portions will be
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