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From the U.S. Patent "Device to prevent picking in poultry" filed in 1935. Blinders, also known as peepers, are devices fitted to, or through, the beaks of poultry to block their forward vision and assist in the control of feather pecking, cannibalism and sometimes egg-eating.
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Feeding your animals, milking them, mucking out the barn, cleaning the chicken coop—there's a lot to keep you busy, which is where livestock dogs/farm dogs can lend a hand...or, er, a paw.
Elmer Haas of the National Band & Tag Company, a major producer of rose-colored chicken eyeglasses, whose grandfather had devised wireframes for chickens in 1902, [13] indicated that he believed the purported blood-masking effect of the rose coloring was a myth: "the firm added the rose-colored glasses because it indulged the chicken owners ...
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A guard llama is a llama that is used in farming to protect sheep, goats, hens or other livestock from canids such as coyotes, dingos, dogs, foxes and other predators. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] In the past, a single gelded (castrated) male was recommended.
Guard dogs have a protective instinct for their families, honed over hundreds of years, says Gina DiNardo, executive secretary at the American Kennel Club, and they will bite or otherwise defend ...
Guard geese have been used throughout history, and in modern times. In ancient Rome, geese are credited by the historian Livy for giving the alarm when Gauls invaded (see Battle of the Allia ). [ 9 ] [ 10 ] [ 11 ] Geese were subsequently revered in the supplicia canum annual sacrifice, and the Romans later founded a temple to Juno, to whom the ...