Finding a Broody Hen Buff Orpingtons are a breed known for their broodiness. The photo above is a Buff Orpington mama hen with several of her chicks. She will not only hatch all her chicks, but she will also care for them through cold nights, meaning there will be no need for her owner to fuss with a heat lamp. The chicks shown above are a mix of Speckled Sussex and Buff Orpingtons....
Common Causes of Sewer Gas Smell There are some pretty normal reasons why you may smell sewer gas in parts of your house that are easily fixed. Water Traps Water traps, sometimes called P-traps or S-traps, are commonly located near floor drains and laundry tubs and are underneath every sink in the house. They work by trapping water inside the curve and blocking the gas from traveling back into the house....
These persistent rodents have been known to chew through wood, wire, plastic, and just about anything else that gets in their way, so even commercial compost bins can be vulnerable. Rats multiply at alarming rates; one pair can multiply to hundreds of baby rats in a year. These rodents are also known to carry diseases. Whether you live in the city, suburbs, or country, chances are good you may end up dealing with rats at some point, though those in warmer climates and urban environments are more likely to face chronic rat problems....
Reasons to Use a Cleft Graft Cleft grafts are for joining scions to a relatively large piece of wood, the size of a major branch or as large as a stump. You could use a cleft graft to topwork a tree to turn it into a new type of tree, or to change over parts of it. If you want to create a novelty fruit tree in which you combine, for example, many different apples on one tree, a cleft graft is a graft you might use on fat, major scaffold branches (a graft for somewhat smaller branches would be the side-stub graft)....
Succession planting involves repeatedly seeding small amounts throughout the summer or planting varieties that mature at different times. Intercropping, on the other hand, is a fancy word for planting two vegetables in the same space. Some vegetables can share space amicably. You can plant early crops that will be removed from the garden alongside late-season crops. For example, radishes are often planted with carrots. The radishes mature quickly and loosen the soil for the late-sprouting carrots....
The imagery of the three-legged toad is common in Chinese decorative art. It’s most often found as a small figurine made of metal or a semi-precious stone-like jade. In ancient Chinese motifs, the toad and frog are often used interchangeably. Sometimes, the toad will have different representations on its back or crown of its head, like the yin and yang symbol. In most cases the three-legged toad is found with a coin in its mouth, sitting on top of a bed of coins or gold ingots....
