Preparing Chickens for Summer Heat: How to Help Them Keep Their Cool By Lisa Steele, Blue Seal Brand Ambassador Chickens do far better in cold temperatures than in the heat, and once the mercury rises much past 75ºF, they’ll start feeling the effects, especially if the air is humid. Understanding your chickens’ needs is important in warmer months. Heat exhaustion is a very real thing and can […] Preparing Chickens for Summer Heat: How to Help Them Keep Their Cool Read More »
Oh, Happy (Chick) Days! Everything You Need to Know to Pick the Best Chicks By Lisa Steele, Blue Seal Brand Ambassador Each spring, our thoughts turn to baby chicks. Whether we are expanding our existing flock or just starting out with chickens for the first time, getting a few chicks is the best way to add flock members. On the other hand, adding pullets or grown hens can bring Oh, Happy (Chick) Days! Everything You Need to Know to Pick the Best Chicks Read More »
Understanding Bird Scent — Part 3: The Dog’s Nose The canine nose…truly one of nature’s most amazing accomplishments. A dog’s nose not only dominates her face, but her brain, as well. In fact, a dog relies on her sense of smell to interpret her world, in much the same way as people depend on their sight. Although this contrasting world view may be hard Understanding Bird Scent — Part 3: The Dog’s Nose Read More »
Understanding Bird Scent — Part 1: The Bird In his book Best Way To Train Your Gun Dog, Hall of Fame Trainer Delmar Smith said: “No one’s ever understood one thing about scent.” Add this: Odor chemistry is complex and still poorly understood. (The Science of Smell, Iowa State University May 2004). Now we can understand why few, if any, have dared enter Understanding Bird Scent — Part 1: The Bird Read More »
Generalize Your Training Wow– it seems everywhere I go, folks have puppies! And, they’re anxious for training advice. Here’s advice that every puppy owner can use. It’s about making your training more widely applicable. In the gun dog training business, this is often referred to as generalizing commands and instruction. One example would be the use of a Generalize Your Training Read More »
How Good is Your Bird Dog? How good is your pointing grouse dog? Fair? Good? Outstanding? What is the standard you use to judge your dog? Your author has had the good fortune to watch and shoot over many pointing breed grouse dogs. Those include English setter, English pointer, German shorthaired pointer, pointing griffon, Brittany and many more. The training of How Good is Your Bird Dog? Read More »
