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Beautiful, warm weather is a delight in summer, but it can cause unfavourable conditions for our blooms. Read on for top tips on how to keep flowers fresh this season from flower delivery company, Bloom & Wild. How to keep flowers fresh in a heatwave Simple starting points These base-level rules for arranging your bouquet will help you to keep flowers fresh in the heat, as they do throughout the rest of the year. Fill a clean vase with fresh water and add flower food. Tri

As a small farmer with a small farm business, you might wonder what records you should be keeping, whether for your own purposes, for any grants or other assistance you may have received, or for taxes. Keeping farm records is a key component of managing your small farm. Farm records serve a number of purposes on the small farm—even if its a hobby farm or homestead. Here are some of the reasons to keep farm records. Monitoring Progress If you are serious about running your farm, you

Peppa Pig loves muddy puddles. Chickens do not. After wet weather, we always get a spike in chicken keepers with sick chooks – mostly coccidiosis, respiratory illnesses and botulism. Don’t let that be you. Find out how to keep your chooks healthy with answers to our five most common customer questions about keeping chooks in rainy weather.(:1f414:) Should chickens go out in the rain? Chicken feathers are somewhat waterproof, so letting them out is fine. Letting your birds out prevents overcrowd

Have you noticed that your chickens aren’t laying very well at the moment? Chickens don’t like the heat, so it is common for them to stop laying over the hottest months of summer.Anything above 29 degrees counts as hot for a chicken, and heat wave temperatures in the high 30s pose serious threats. Symptoms of heat stress in chickensDecreased layingSmaller eggsThin-shelled eggsDiarrhea Slower growthPoor nutrient absorption and malnutritionSuppressed immune response Increased risk of parasites and