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In this show, Cathy recaps her weekend at the Georgia Organics conference in Savannah, paid for by Georgia Organics as part of the Farmer-to-Farmer Mentoring program. Jon and Cathy discuss heritage breed rabbits, biodynamic farming, their new rabbit barn, clicker training their English Shepherd dog, and building housing for a future intern and apprentice.
Dr. Kim Bloomer and Dr. Jeannie Thomason, veterinary naturopaths and co-hosts of the popular Podcast, Animal Talk Naturally, spent an hour talking with Jon and me about their journey in promoting naturally health care for pets. Just as humans thrive on a holistic approach to health care and eating traditional, real foods, pets thrive [...]
Life on our new farm is busy and hot, but Jon and I consider ourselves “lucky ducks” because we have our first livestock on the farm. You guessed it – ducks! Sunday morning we picked up nine Khaki Campbell ducks that are six weeks old. Hens of this breed are notoriously good egg layers, excellent foragers on pasture, and hardy. Duck eggs are nutrient-dense and rich in protein, fat, cholesterol, and calcium. People who are allergic to chicken’s eggs can often enjoy eggs of other layers such as ducks.
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A misty morning on the walking trail.
Jon and I have been very busily transitioning from suburb to farm. It has been quite an adventure! Thanks to all of you who have been following us on facebook or Twitter, send encouraging emails, and listening to the archives of our Podcasts. I finished my last [...]
In this episode we discuss clicker training for your pet. It is a more natural way to train a pet that involves positive reinforcement contrasted against the older methods involving verbal and physical discipline. We answer the following questions;
What is clicker training? What is natural about it? How do I get started? and we [...]
This is the second part of our series about holistic pet care and how it differs from traditional allopathic veterinary care. We discuss alternative treatment methods and share some real life experiences with that we have experienced with traditional remedies. In this show we answer the following questions;
What is acupuncture? Why use Chinese herbs [...]
In this episode we talk about holistic pet care and how it differs from traditional allopathic veterinary care. We discuss homeopathic remedies and share a couple of our real life experiences with them. We answer the following questions;
How does holistic pet care differ from allopathic veterinary care? What is homeopathy? What is osteopathy? What [...]
In this show we talk about the benefits of feeding our pets a species appropriate diet of raw meat and bones. Some of the points we cover are;
How we started feeding our dogs naturally Problems with commercial pet food Rationale and benefits of raw feeding
Commercial pet foods are unnatural, unhealthy, and contain ingredients [...]
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