Sporting Gun

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• If you’re trying to deal with a fox that’s in an awkward location, try to lure it out into open ground. A caller is the most immediate solution but if that doesn’t work, a longer-term answer is to put some bait (cat food, roadkill, or whatever) dow

Shooting Times & Country

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Seven eggs were found in an incubator after gamekeepers tipped off police about a thief who was snatching the eggs of struggling waders from grouse moors. The keepers — who work on Snailsden, Ladycross and Woodhead estates — reported the man to the p

ARCHAEOLOGY

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For wealthy Bronze or Iron Age southern Europeans, nothing beat an ostrich eggshell cup. It is known that these coveted luxury items were imported from the Levant and Egypt, but until recently, little has been understood about the ancient ostrich egg

BBC Wildlife Magazine

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Throughout the animal kingdom, certain insects, amphibians, fish and birds practise something called ‘sex role reversal’. The male takes on the role of caring for eggs and young, while the (often) more colourful female competes for males. Though rare

BBC Science Focus Magazine

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WHAT DID THEY DO? Dr Neil Jordan, a biologist from the University of New South Wales, Australia, painted eyes on the rear ends of cattle in the Okavango Delta region of Botswana. WHY DID THEY DO THAT? After hearing reports of a group of local farmers

Earth Garden

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Q Why won’t my chicken lay in the nesting boxes provided and how can I convince her to? Lillian B. A Sometimes if there are too many chickens per number of nesting boxes they will alternate laying locations. If the access isn’t easy, there’s a bro

Shooting Times & Country

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BASC is urging the police to be consistent in the COVID-19 advice given to the shooting community amid reports that some forces have blocked essential fox control during the lambing season. Duncan Thomas, regional director of BASC North, said: “Some

Country Life

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• In chickens, eggshell colour is often related to the shade of the bird’s ear lobes: red-eared hens generally produce brown eggs (except for the delightfully named Easter eggers, which lay blue or green eggs) and white-eared hens tend to lay white •

GRIT Country Skills Series

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Here on Haven Homestead, we keep a number of different animals. We have meat rabbits, ducks, a goat, a cat, a dog, and of course, chickens. The one thing that surprised me about the poultry was the differences in anatomy between them and me. There is

The Atlantic

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In his lab at the University of Edinburgh, Mike McGrew is turning commercial egg-laying hens into surrogates for rare chicken breeds revived from frozen cells—a technique that he hopes one day might also be used to revive endangered bird species. The

Photography Week

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While captivating behaviour such as a fighting or hunting can really elevate wildlife images, don’t forget to think about the more subtle, less-pronounced behaviour, as it can often still have a big impact. Even a photo of something as grand as a lio

KRASH

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PS. NOT ALL OF THESE PETS ARE LEGAL IN AUSTRALIA. This odd pet won’t chew up your favourite shoes like your dog and are guaranteed to creep out your mum. If you can get your skin to stop crawling, they like to climb on you too. Related to the gui

Babybug

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I line them up from head to tail,lion, tiger, monkey, whale,alligator, penguin too,elephant, and kangaroo.Can you see what I have made?Romping, stomping zoo parade! text © 2019 by Galen Goodwin Longstreth, art © 2019 by Bonnie Lui ■

Sporting Shooter

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It was good to get out of Darwin and head south on the Stuart Highway on the first part of our trip into our Back Country Hunting block. My son-in-law Jase was with me on his first trip to the Top End, he was as keen as to get in and experience buffa

Grit

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When Justin and Lucie Stephens settled on their property in Missouri, they wanted to raise an animal that could supplement their income. “We thought cattle, but everybody does cattle,” Justin says. In the end, the Stephens decided on a red-meat anima

BBC Wildlife Magazine

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Incubating birds turn their eggs but not, as is commonly thought, to prevent the embryos from sticking to the shell, or to warm the eggs evenly. Instead, turning is to ensure that the embryo can use all of the albumen (egg white) during development.

BBC Countryfile Magazine

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For some, the most memorable fox encounter is unspeakably distressing: a chicken coop turned into a bloodbath. Anger is followed by moral questions about greed and waste, but that achieves nothing: holding a wild animal to human ethical standards is

Country Life

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IF Sir Winston Churchill’s statue had happened to glance downwards on March 29, it would have been in for a shock. For the first time in centuries, three wild boar were spotted in Parliament Square, rootling at the sculpture’s foot. Staff at Westmins

Lampoon Magazine International

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in biology – the female reproductive sex cell. In Hinduism – the beginning of all creation: the shell as the heavens, the yolk as the Earth. An unhatched egg resting in a nest is a message of anticipation, unexpected potential and hope. Once broken o

Australian Hunter

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Australian Hunter 62 arrives with keen hunter and photographer Rhys Leslie outlining the special aura that the opening of the duck season has with his family, which involves three generations savouring the annual hunting pilgrimage. There are tales o

Shooting Times & Country

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The RSPB has published the numbers of mammals and birds culled on its reserves. Animals culled by the charity included more than 1,000 deer, 500 foxes and more than 500 geese. Perhaps taking a cue from gamekeepers, the charity hit crows hard to prote

NPR

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Eggs evolved over 300 million years ago and now come in all kinds of shapes, from Tic Tacs to teardrops to pingpong balls. After studying some 50,000 eggs, a team of researchers thinks it knows why.

GRIT Country Skills Series

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By Lindsay Hodge Here on Haven Homestead, we keep a number of different animals. We have meat rabbits, ducks, a goat, a cat, a dog, and of course, chickens. The one thing that surprised me about the poultry was the differences in anatomy between them

Sporting Rifle

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March is a bit of a strange month where shooting is concerned. For a start, it sees the end of the shooting of all female species of deer, so those with cull targets will have little time left to get the job done. This year has been a tough one for s

Sporting Gun

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If you suspect that mass releases of foxes are happening your area, you can never relax. The most important thing is to be aware of the issue so that you can reassure your farmers that you are always keeping an eye out on their behalf. Some of the ke

Shooting Times & Country

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The review of the Game Conservancy’s work for the year contains a report based on the findings of the partridge survival project on an estate on the South Downs near where I live in Sussex. This gives one much food for thought regarding the very nece

Outdoor Life

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Like most turkey hunters, I focus mainly on the early-morning hours. after all, who doesn’t like to call in and shoot a gobbler straight off the roost? However, last season I was reminded that longbeards can be killed at any time of day. Of course, t

Shooting Times & Country

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The pheasants in our laying pen have laid fewer eggs this year. They were caught, wormed and put on the pellets at exactly the same time as last year. They are the same strain, we have had no disease problem, they have been treated exactly the same t

Sporting Rifle

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The year moves on, and with the show season virtually over, it’s the time of year when shooting really takes off. The partridges have been in season for a month now, and the start of the grouse season seems ages ago. On top of this, the month of Octo

Country Style

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For three years, Sarah Burrows and Anita Taylor have been working on a project to change how livestock is processed. “We hate the traditional system of transporting animals to the abattoir,” says Sarah. “It’s highly stressful. We thought there had to