You may have noticed a rise in the number of people you know adopting the hobby of backyard chickens. Whether it be the desire for nutritious eggs, sustainable living, or to have a hobby to relinquish boredom, adding chickens to…
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Why Keeping Backyard Chickens Is Important
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How to Use a Live Trap
So you’ve got a pest on your property. If you’ve tried repelling or scaring off the animal, or fencing off the area you don’t want disturbed and the critter is still a nuisance, you may want to consider using a…
Posted in Double-Tuf®, Little Giant®, Miller MFG Company Tagged with: homesteading, live traps, pest control, trapping
Help control the mosquito population in your backyard naturally!
Mosquitoes are getting a lot of publicity these days; from everything to West Nile Virus to the scary new Zika virus, mosquitoes are at the heart of these public health issues. Mosquitoes can carry disease and viruses that are easily…
Posted in API®, Miller MFG Company Tagged with: API, backyard birds, farmstead, gardening, pest control, songbirds
That Squirrel Ate My Jack-o-Lantern
As we begin to come down from our sugar-induced food comas and the spray-on hair dye is washed from pillow cases, we look on and forward to the next holiday. We gather our photographs, laugh at our DIY costume attempts…