When you live in a rural area, as I do, backyard gardening is a commonly seen and many times, very important part of many of our lives. The growing of our own produce in a backyard always seems so… “fun?” ,but can often times involve backbreaking work, weeks of preparation, and vigilance, once the plants have been planted. All this being said, it truly can be a great asset to you and your family’s nutritional needs, as well as your wallets. So if you have decided to prove you

You enter your favorite retail store (we all know it’s Target), you turn to the right (after you grab your coffee at Starbucks, of course), you walk past the soaps and shampoos and beauty products, medicines, and then… BAM!! 600 different dog foods! Overwhelmed is an understatement for what you may feel, because unless you have some sort of background in animal nutrition, how are you supposed to know which food is best for your dog? If I'm being honest with you, the answer to

Many types of cattle have a high cold temperature tolerance, due to many different factors. Higher consistent body temperature, thicker layers of skin, layers of hair, amount of body fat etc. But when it comes to a calf their cold temperature tolerance is many times much lower. Calves less than 3 weeks of age are, like many of us humans including myself, are most comfortable between 59-75 degrees fahrenheit. Knowing this, if you are cold out there in winter conditions, odds a

Many times people seem to place animals in a different category when it comes to how they handle extreme temperatures and weather conditions. But when it comes down to it, many pets will not handle these conditions much better than you or I would. Below are a few things that you should take into consideration as we battle through the cold and bleak winter months. Wind chill is a nasty bugger. You know that cold to the bone feeling you get when you walk out in below freezing w