4 The Love Of Animals

JUNE 26, 2013

Then, use chicken wire to cover the openings in the dresser, and you’ve got a classy, personalized aviary that will better mimic the feeling of a home in the shady protection of a tree. Mike Freiberg is a staff writer for HomeDaddys , a resource for stay-at-home dads, work-at-home dads, and everything in between.

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10,000 Birds

MAY 26, 2011

These small chickens are mountain-top specialities. One of the most reliable resources for birding in Colorado is the Colorado Field Ornithologists webpage. Views like this offer specialty niches for many high-altitude species. These White-tailed Ptarmigan are without a doubt one of the most sought-after species in Colorado.

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Animal Person

MAY 23, 2009

If you believe your dog has a right to a life free of torture and slaughter for no reason, then you really ought to think about extending that right to mice, rats, chickens and fish. And I don't see how they further our goal of getting humans to realize that nonhumans are not resources for them to exploit.

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Animal Ethics

FEBRUARY 27, 2012

In addition, producing more meat worsens worldwide hunger and food insecurity by dedicating precious farmland and water resources to the production of animal feed. We have a hard enough time figuring out what makes people happy, but chickens? Are they happier scratching around the barnyard or sitting confined in cages?

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10,000 Birds

APRIL 27, 2012

In polygyny, females will often nest on territories held by a male, with multiple females nesting on a single male’s territory, as in Red-winged Blackbirds (Yasukawa and Searcy 1995). The third type of mating system, where the traditional sex-roles are reversed, found in roughly 0.4% of all bird species, is polyandry.

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 21, 2011

Besides founding 10,000 Birds and I and the Bird , Mike has also created a number of other entertaining sites and resources, particularly the Nature Blog Network. Chicken Skin! 8 Responses to “Best Bird of the Weekend (Third of March 2011)&# Jochen Mar 21st, 2011 at 10:00 am Okay, crap.

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 13, 2011

These Blasts From The Past Nice November Weekend Birds in Flight at Sandy Hook Owls in the Gloaming What is the Chicken Inferno? Besides founding 10,000 Birds and I and the Bird , Mike has also created a number of other entertaining sites and resources, particularly the Nature Blog Network.

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10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 1, 2011

When I upped my goal to some insane stratospheric level in June, going back to find things like Lesser Prairie-Chicken (which I missed) became more problematic. Yes, I think I would if I had all of my favorite resources available: 1) money 2) time 3) health Is there anything else you would like to add?

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Animal Person

MAY 10, 2009

But if you're on the outside, and you're hostile to the idea of respecting the natural lives of sentient nonhumans and you see them only as resources to be managed, might you have a similar idea? Now, I know you're saying: That's not what animal rights is.

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Animal Ethics

AUGUST 2, 2008

We pay lip service to more humane treatment of the animals that we eat, but how many of us look beyond the label on the package of chicken cutlets? I hope he also knows that choosing a meat-based diet contributes to environmental devastation, involves a disproportionate use of the earth’s resources and causes untold health problems.

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 20, 2011

You can designate it thus; you can legally call it a Rhode Island Red chicken if you want, but no whooping crane on this planet is nonessential. It flies on. photo by JZ When a population of birds numbers only 400 in the wild, there can be no such thing as a “nonessential” individual. Not when we have but 400 to spare.

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Animal Ethics

SEPTEMBER 7, 2009

After two or three laying cycles when their egg production begins to wane, the layer hens are inhumanely loaded onto trucks and sent to slaughter, where they are processed into chicken soup and pet food. Why not try it for yourself for 21 days?

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