Frequently Asked Questions
How To Make Fairy Gardens, Alters And Homes?
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how to make a fairy altar:
1. locate where you're going to put it. It should ideally be tucked away in a quiet room or corner, where you can get to it easily and be able to work undisturbed. Place it in a room that has meaning for you.
2. Make the fairy altar. Choose a special piece of furniture, or make it yourself, remembering to use sustainable wood. If you are not DIY-minded, you can buy specially carved altars, or simply add your own touch by painting and embellishing what you have. It can take the shape of a shelf, a table, or even an entire dresser. You could even decorate an entire room in honour of the Fae.
3. Add items to the altar. Focus on natural, faerie-related items, choosing nature-inspired colours. Place any meaningful natural objects you encounter, such as acorns, flowers or feathers. Create a treasure box of smaller items to keep them dust free, and place candles, crystals, earth and incense upon your shrine to represent the four elements. Faerie ornaments, art and your own handcrafted creations are good ideas as well. Don't forget offerings. (for instance I have candles that are in the shapes of flowers and leaves. I have a feather of a hawk who used to live in the tree in my backyard. as well as faerie figurines on it)
4. Change the arrangement and contents regularly to keep the interest of the faeries. Remember to also keep your altar clean and dust-free, as faeries cannot abide a dirty house, let alone a neglected altar!
How to make a faerie home:
1.Choose a quiet location away from the road or where a lot of people walk.
2. Collect natural materials to build the fairy house. Look for small sticks, pieces of bark, pretty pebbles and shells, pinecones, dry grasses, leaves, nuts and seeds. Choose material that reflects the location.
3. Arrange the materials in an artful way around the special location selection for the fairy house. Push sticks into soft earth to build walls or fashion a lean-to.
4. Use little branches and weave pine needles or long grasses in them to make a roof. Create a different kind of roof by setting long sticks across the tops of the walls and covering them with pieces of bark.
5. Create a twig ladder. Decorate with shells, nuts, leaves and other things that fairies would find pretty. Line a path to the house with pebbles. Make the fairy house blend into the surroundings so that it is almost hidden.
6. Leave the fairy house undisturbed so that fairies can come and go without worry. Remember that fairies are very neat and rarely disturb their surroundings, so it's difficult to tell when they last visited the house.
(or buy one, I know some people who buy a fairy homes)
How to make a faerie garden:
Generally, just make a garden. While remembering... faeries are private creatures – leave areas of the garden wild, and the edges of the lawn long. Use organic methods whenever possible – faeries are thought to not appreciate chemicals! A fairy garden should reflect the natural state of the local area, so choose plants that are native, preferably wildflowers. Create a sensory garden by using sound, smell, touch and taste as well as the visual delights for sight. Take wildlife into consideration – provide homes, food and shelter for animals and birds. Take inspiration from your favorite fairytale films, books and art – create miniature dells, secret places and fairy houses using only natural materials. If you need help on what flowers to use, my garden has: roses, lilies, daisies, peonies, hollyhocks, geraniums, lavender, thyme, rosemary, sage, clematis, and, according to folklore, the most famous of faerie flowers, foxgloves.
Is This Alright To Do In My Stable ?
Well.. Just Got My First Horse Which Is A 16 Hand Gelding. Would This Alright To Do In My Stable.. Well I Put These Hay Barrels Around The Edge Of The Walls To Stop Him Hurting His Legs. Http://Www.Propsunlimited.Com/Pics/1167.Jpg And I Do Sprinkle Down Wood Chips On The Floor To Soak Up The Wee. Which I Use This Http://Www.Blakehauling.Com/Images/Playgroundwood-933_640X480.Jpg I Get It From My Local Farm Shop And He Said It Would Be Fine Then I Put Down Fresh Clean Hay On Top. I Also Have These Rugs Under It All Http://Www.Urubber.Com/Webimagefile/20040818034834Horse%20Stable%20Mats.Jpg Is This Alright To Do.
I love questions like this - it shows you are cognizant of the fact that simply riding for years and helping Mom does't mean you know it all. isn't it strange that you can be around them riding for many years, you can help your family for all your life care for horses, yet when you're on your own, it's like you don't remember anything? I think there's a select few who really soak up what they learn and apply it when young. We just hit a certain age where we think and learn differently than we did when young. It's also strange to me when things "click" in my mind - they make sense, then I understand and what I learn sticks with me.
I cannot view the links you provide as my computer is too slow.
But I assume you're talking about the conditions of the stall the horse is kept in? If so, a set of rubber mats on the floor is a good thing - if the mats are on dirt floor, they will move and need to be picked up and the floor cleaned and leveled underneath them once in a while - maybe once a year. The horse's movement of their big body still has an effect on the dirt flooring underneath. If the floor is cement, the mats are really helpful to keep the horse's legs healthy - either way, watch for turned up edges and corners, they cause stumbling and discomfort for the horse - trust me, tripping on the edge of a mat when carrying hay is NOT fun.
Hay and straw are common things to use for bedding - while they do provide an certain amount of cushion, their main purpose is often to soak up moisture - you remove it periodically to remove the moisture. The 'wee' moisture not only is dirty, uncomfortable and nasty, the smell of ammonia can damage a horse's respiratory system - it's said by the time you can smell urine, the horse's system has sustained damage. it's important no matter what you use to keep it clean and dry. I prefer wood shaving or sawdust - you must be cautious if buying from a sawmill to ensure there's no walnut dust - this can kill the horse. If you're buying in bags from a distributor like TSC or a feed store/elevator, it's safe (usually pine). The reason I like shavings better than straw is that shaving are actually absorbent whereas straw will not actually soak up moisture. I find it easier to clean and on rubber mats, provides more traction. I used straw one time on rubber mats and found the horses had a slippery mess - a small amount of sawdust, however provided better footing and was easier to clean.
The horse shouldn't need anything around the bottom of the stall - like hay "barrels?" (not sure what this is) - however, ensure there are no nails or other objects the horse can get hurt on or can get cast on if he should lie down in the stall. If you're unfamiliar with the term 'cast' - it means that a horse can lay down or roll - they can roll and end up against a wall with their feet against it so they can't roll back over or get up - they get stuck. When this has happened to me, I have taken a soft cotton lead rope - not nylon or hemp soft cotton rope - carefully place it around the horse's forelegs or hind legs - which ever are easier to get to - just loop it around the legs do not encircle the legs with it. Give a gentle pull - what you are doing is giving the horse something to push himself back over with, you are not pulling him back over. It's easy to break a leg doing this, so you must be careful. And stay out of the way of his legs - just give him enough support to roll back over and get up.
An idea that might work better to ward off such a circumstance is to use enough sawdust or shavings that you can 'bank it up' around the edges of the stall floor where it meets the walls. Putting a bunch of it in the stall and banking it up will help insure the horse can't cast itself and also you can take out the dirty stuff, pull the clean away from the wall and when the stuff banked around the edges gets used down, put more in around the edges. A big horse farm I once knew of used this method quite successfully.
Taking Care Of A Friends Pet?!?
I'M Taking Care Of My Friends Two Gerbils And I'M Scared They'Re Gonna Die?! I Don'T Really Know Anything About Gerbils And I'M Gonna Have Them For A Week:O I'Ve Had Hamsters But Not Gerbils? What Do I Need To Know So They Don'T Die? Thanks!!:)
The best habitat for a gerbil is a large glass tank so that you can fill it with a minimum of 6 inches of a decent substrate such as mega orb, fin card, care fresh or bed excel for your gerbil to dig in.Never use sawdust or anything pine or cedar based as they can cause serious respiratory problems. Add a layer of hay - this helps support their network of tunnels and chewing aids their digestion. Hamster cages are boring and useless to a gerbil; they must have room to burrow. You can expand your tank with a wire topper. This is very useful as it allows a place for a sand bath and water where they will not become contaminated. It also gives a good place for an essential solid-based wheel and useful items such as hanging nests and hammocks.
Provide a good diet. The first step in good care is a good diet. Like us, gerbils need a balanced diet of greens, protein, certain fats and vitamins. Give them a well balanced gerbil food, with lots of different kinds of foods in it. Mealworms, sunflower seeds, monkey nuts and millet sprays make a tasty occasional treat for gerbils. Supplement their dried food with fresh, healthy vegetables such as broccoli, carrots and peas and sweet corn. You do not need bowls. Scatter feeding is easier for you and better for your gerbils as it encourages their natural instinct to forage. Also provide a water bottle. Get one with a nice metal spout. It helps if it is clear plastic, so you can see how full it is with a glance. It hangs nicely from a mesh lid on a glass aquarium or through the bars of your topper.
Come up with a way for them to exercise. Exercise is also important to any pet's health. Luckily gerbils are naturally active, you just need to provide them the space and plenty of nooks and crannies, in which they can have hours of activity. A solid-based wheel such as the medium sized silent spinner is great exercise. Encourage their active minds. Gerbils enjoy keeping themselves mentally occupied with tasks such as digging tunnels or making a nest. They'll spend hour’s systematically shredding cardboard, straw and tearing up tissue to make a comfy bed.
Give your gerbil some love. Emotionally, gerbils need special consideration. In the wild they live in groups, so keep at least two. But pick two that have been raised together, of the same gender, and never separate them for long periods of time. It is sometimes possible to introduce gerbils using a split cage method process, but it is not for the inexperienced. Learn about what your gerbil needs. As with any type of pet that you haven't had before, you should consider investing in a book and do plenty of research on their health, habits, and cost of upkeep before you purchase the pet.
My Bannana Trees Got Frost Bite!?
This Winter Was Cold And My Bannana Trees Got Frost Bite And Turned Brown. I Cut Them Down And Covered Them With A Thick Layer Of Pine Straw. When Do They Come Back Up. Its Been A Lil Chilly At Night But Really Wam 60'S To 80'S Durning The Day. I Just Have Never Had To Cut Them. So I Dont Know When To Expect Them To Start To Grow. Any Info Would Helpp Lots Thanks
The plant stems you cut off will not grow back, but if you will remove the pine straw mulch and let the soil warm up the rhizomes will send up new shoots that will quickly become full plants.
How Do I Get Rid Of Black Worms Eating My White Pine Tree?
Today While Cutting Dead Branches Off My White Pine I Noticed That All The Dead Parts Were Hollow And Then I Cut Another Branch And Found A Maybe 1/2&Quot; Black Slimy Worm Inside One Of The Branches Please Help!!! Also The Needles Easily Pull Off The Branches
Does it have the tell tale Shepard hook at the top of the tree... not growing straight?
Mine did, turns out they all had White Pine Pitch borer. Whitish sap running down
the trunk at different points. If this is your problem, you will need to have them
sprayed professionally right now, and again in Sept. Then probably twice again
next year. After that, if they look healthy, you can treat them once in late Spring.
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