Country Life Articles

2). Chicken Rearing 101 – How Not to Raise Poultry By : Nola L. Kelsey
Caution! Poultry parenthood is not all it’s cracked up to be. Are you considering becoming a backyard egg farmer? Chicken Rearing 101 examines the humorous, yet, brutally harsh realities of life as a small time chick wrangler.
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3). 10 Country Do's and Dont's By : Cyd
What follows are 10 lessons from my “now I know better” collection. Perhaps these lessons learned will ease your transition from the city to wilderness. 1. Know thyselves. If you are a couple who bickers over which way to hang the toilet paper roll, don’t buy raw land. The path from raw land to indoor plumbing is fraught with hundreds, if not thousands, of decisions.
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4). Chicken Rearing 101 – How Not to Raise Chickens By : Nola L. Kelsey
Chick: A hatchling Capon: A castrated male used for meat. (How much could that yield?) Pullet: A female chicken under one year old. Hen: A female chicken over one year of age Rooster: A male chicken over one year of age. Raising Chickens for the first time can be intimidating. When I first called the Feed Shop, I was trying to sound like a pro.
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5). Clothesline Fresh – Country Myth Breaker # 17 By : Nola L. Kelsey
Clothesline fresh, country fresh scent, smells like a country garden, those of us from the city have all seen our share of country clad laundry soap commercials. The token red barn glows in the distance. Closer in, clothes adorn the line. Each piece is so straight and evenly spaced you’d believe a team of sophomore geometry students hung them as their final class projects.
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6). Rural Relocation – Considerations and Adjustments By : Nola L. Kelsey
So you’re thinking about going country? It’s time to abandon the frenzy of city life, drop the ‘G’ from the end of your verbs and trade your Gucci for goats. You long to be in a place where business is done on a handshake, where your backyard is bountiful and where folks welcome you with warm apple pie and a smile. You want the simple life. Over 1.
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7). Country Lawn Maintenance - 10 Tips to Know Before You Mow By : Nola L. Kelsey
Practical survival skills should be fifty percent of what we study in school! Languishing twelve to sixteen years in the bowels of our education system should not leave American citizens unprepared to cope with perpetually running toilets. A burned out taillight should not knock our world off its axis. This chasm of neglected wisdom is not simply filled with the obvious auto and home maintenance issues.
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8). Bat Ejection Techniques – Country Survival Course #27 By : Nola L. Kelsey
People lie! They lie about the bliss of rural relocation. They lie about the size of fish they catch. They lie about being there for you. But, mostly, they lie about bats! Such a silly thing, yet no one can admit the ugly truth. “Bats only come into your house. It never happens to me,” friends say. Liars! Evidence to the contrary exists. Bat visitations have occurred regularly in all three of my country homes.
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