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SOME BUNNY LOVES YOU
Wednesday, 19 October 2011
If you want to keep animals but live in the suburbs, rabbits may well fit the bill – although you may not wish to go as far as Karen Yorke, who shares her Papakura section with “about 50.”
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Arabians plan spectacular return
Wednesday, 19 October 2011
The hoopla of the Rugby World Cup is almost over but locals have another sporting highlight to look forward to – one in which they can be active participants.
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Letter to the editor
Wednesday, 19 October 2011
Some information in the article by Jon Rawlinson, “Free range eggs ‘good as gold’”, in the September 2011 issue of Urban Living was misleading, and in response, we ask that you share the below information with your readers.
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Chicken still tops
Wednesday, 19 October 2011
New Zealanders have given chicken the thumbs for dinner above other meats.
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FRIENDS FUR-EVER
Friday, 30 September 2011
Peter and Jan Wallace cope with a full house at their Karaka property Mistybrook. Apart from themselves, there’s Jethro, Ziva, Quincy, Grace and Briea, their ages ranging from 11 months to seven years.
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Free range eggs 'good as gold'
Friday, 30 September 2011
Good eggs are as ‘good as gold’ in the New Zealand market where more and more consumers are demanding eggs from cage-free poultry as evidenced at the inaugural Good Egg Awards in Auckland last month.
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Who's a good egg?
Friday, 30 September 2011
The cagey question of who are the good eggs of the New Zealand food industry has been cracked – and there are 38 of them. Of those 38, six were recognised at the Good Egg Awards as outstanding in the sectors in which they operate.
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Cattle auction
Friday, 30 September 2011
Scottish Highland Cattle have become increasingly popular over the years, especially for smaller landholders.
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WHOLLY COW
Tuesday, 30 August 2011
It's midwinter: cold and wet, with mud everywhere. Days are short and nights are long, not to mention dark and stormy - the favourite time for cows to decide to calve.
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How now, brown cow
Tuesday, 30 August 2011
There’s a little bit of Swiss on the Awhitu Peninsula – Brown Swiss, to be precise. Barry Taylor’s sleek brown girls comprise half of his milking herd and they aren’t just pretty faces. “They’re great milking cows, and I’m rapt with them,” he says.
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OH DAIRY ME!
Friday, 15 July 2011
It is well known that New Zealand has well in excess of 11,000 dairy herds.
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It's the hen who delivers the eggs
Friday, 17 June 2011
It’s easy for one to get clucky over a dozen fluffy chicks but for those wanting to keep hens for egg production or even the pot there is a variety of choices available.
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CHICKEN LICKEN
Friday, 17 June 2011
Many free-range farmers buy in their birds when they are at the point-of-lay at about 18 weeks of age.
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Rescue remedy for feathered friends
Friday, 17 June 2011
Birds landing in Robyn’s Nest are fortunate indeed, even if the circumstances of their arrival are not. Robyn Sampson operates her Pokeno sanctuary as part of SPCA Birdwing, taking in the halt and the lame, the sick and the homeless.
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Chooks and a fat Tui
Friday, 17 June 2011
Step on to Fat Tui Farm and it’s easy to see it is a poultry paradise.
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