How To Customize a Doggie Door for Cleanliness, Safety, and Style
Whether you’re in the investigation/planning stage of installing a doggie door or if you’ve already installed one and discovered the freedom a doggie door gives …
Equestrian & Animal Related
Learn how to find, create, and curate and equestrian-inspired home decor for all season, with our articles on integrating equestrian-inspired elements of traditional British American style.
How to Pick a Puppy from a Breeder’s Litter
First, pick the litter. Then, pick from the litter. You’ve considered the options and chosen to get a dog through a breeder. Now what? No …
How I Get my Hens to Stop Sharing Nests
If you have more than a handful of chickens, and maybe even if you only have a few, you likely know that one …
Five Responsible Ways to Rehome a Dog
Let’s talk about a not fun topic: rehoming a pet. Although rehoming a pet is increasingly a taboo topic, sometimes rehoming a pet is …
Adding Reach-Through Nesting Boxes to a Vintage Chicken Coop
Nesting boxes are a recent addition to my vintage 1920’s era chicken coop. Tired of retrieving eggs from plastic-totes-turned-nesting-boxes (which had a tendency to migrate …
How to Winterize your Chicken Coop & Collect Fresh Eggs all Winter
Chickens are hardy birds that adapt well to a wide range of temperatures if given the resources needed to keep themselves warm. In this …
Bringing Christmas Charm by Decorating Chicken Coops
When most of us start decorating for Christmas, we usually just decorate typical things: putting up a Christmas tree, placing a wreath on the …
Is Raising Chickens for Meat Profitable? My Cost Breakdown
A few years ago I raised a flock of meat birds. I accompanied these birds from brooder to butcher and along the way, I …
DIY: How to Build a Natural DIY Bucket Heater without Electricity
Did you know that you can make your own freeze-resistant water buckets, troughs, or ponds using natural materials you already have on your farm to …
Horse Stable Chandeliers – Tips for Lighting for Barns & Equestrian Venues
This delightfully absurd pairing of stable chandeliers is a bit of your own creation, dear blog readers. 80% of Hawk Hill’s visitors surf in for …
6 Tips to Successfully Move a Broody Hen
Hatching chicks from your own eggs- or convincing a motherly hen to raise a batch of hatchery chicks- is a fun way to experience a …
How to Repurpose an Old Horse Halter to Create a Hanging Flower Planter
One of the most frequently Pinterest pinned images from this site is this photo, above, from my chicken coop / barnyard, taken in the summer …
5 Ways to Repurpose Old Horse Halters and Bridles
Even if you’ve checked out my articles on repairing broken horse halters, sometimes a halter is just beyond repair. Whether it’s terminally broken or just …
Myths and Realities about Breed-Based Dog Rescues
What comes to mind when you think of rescued dogs? Mixed breed? old? Aggressive? Crazy? Modern dog rescue is so different from the idea brought up …
How to: Build Your Own 2-Week Chicken Feeder
Necessity is the mother of invention- and in this case, a need to not frequently handle feed bags due to a dust allergy inspired the …
How to Add an Engraved Plate to a Leather Strap
Step by step instructions for attaching an engraved metal plate to a leather strap (halter, belt, etc) WITHOUT using a leather punch or rivet setting …
How to Mount and Hang Horseshoes & Halter Plates
This framed horse shoe is one of my dearest possessions, but taking it from the rusty mess I found in my horses’s pasture to this …
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