Alpaca fur, or more correctly, alpaca fiber is one of the primary reasons why people raise alpacas. The fleece is comparable to cashmere and is known
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Horse racing fans devise their own systems for picking the Kentucky Derby winner. My predictions for the famous May event are based solely on nam
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A dilemma that many bird owners face is the problem of providing enough toys for their precocious pets. To help cut the cost of providing playthi
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When you have a pet bird or other birds around you, like on a farm or in your yard, you might run the risk of developing something called aspergillos
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The main things to attend to for the first 60 days of a chicks’ life are housing, temperature, food and water, cleanliness. Chicks should be kept ind
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It is not true that dogs are completely colorblind. While dogs do not have the same color vision as humans, they are able to tell yellow from blu
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The Rutland County Humane Society (RCHS) offers a “Spay The Mom” program that is simple and free. If you’re a Rutland County resident, and have a
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Sheep is a term for selective grazing animals that may be domesticated or wild. Behaviorally, sheep are gregarious, precocial, defenseless creatu
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Ever since people have existed, we have watched birds fly and wondered how they did it, wondering also if we too could fly. Only in the 20th cent
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Many prominent people, including William Randolph Hearst, imported llamas to the U.S. in the late 1800s and early 1900s. Since the mid-1970s, the
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