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Faverolle Chooks Breed: Faverolle Temperament: Placid Cost: Around $50, more for quality breeding stock. Lifespan: 5-7 years Recommended for: Backyarders Appearance The Faverolle is a deep chested bird with a thick rectangular body and an...
Modena Pigeon Breed: Modena pigeon Temperament: docile, robust Cost: $50 plus Lifespan: 10 years Recommended for: beginners, enthusiasts The Modena is a pigeon which has more than its fair share of colour – especially in its past. In the 1300s in the Italian...
Exhibition Poultry Breed: Rhode Island Red Temperament: Hens docile, roosters can be aggressive Cost: $80 Lifespan: 5 years Maintenance: Medium Recommended for: Enthusiasts, backyarders Rhode Island Reds emerged in the 1890s in the Boston-Massachusetts-Rhode Island...
With more than 300,000 exhibition budgerigars bred in Australia annually it’s the world’s most competitive animal. But what of its wild cousin – the bird which began it all? Appearance Wild budgerigars are quite small, slim, athletic birds when...
Horse Sense: Pat Parelli Pat Parelli has won international acclaim with his philosophy of natural horsemanship and his ability to teach other people what horses want and need them to know – savvy. His theory is based on the prey-predator concept, that is, horses...
Breed: Jack Russell Terrier Temperament: outgoing and friendly Lifespan: 14-15 years Maintenance: low Recommended for: families History The Jack Russell Terrier is a plucky little dog, originally bred to roust foxes who had ‘escaped to ground’ (gone...
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Spanish Influence It’s not often that we’re asked to do a makeover for someone’s motherin-law but that’s exactly why Scott Roberts wrote to us. His mother-inlaw, Judith Gavan, suffers from rheumatoid arthritis which makes the use of her hands...
Diana’s Dream Diana Olsberg has always dreamed of having a lovel
Japanese Garden In 1973 Keryn White and Ken Goff were high school sweethearts. Their young romance only lasted a year and it wasn’t until their school reunion in 1996 that they met again. Some 23 years of separation melted away and the romance was rekindled....