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Garden DIY – How to Make a Bird House with Satellite Dish!

Posted on June 10, 2009 by max

I have seen plenty old satellite dishes just waiting to get dumped, here’s a great way to re-use the dish for your neighbor birds as a bird house.

Have you ever wondered how many unused satellite dishes are floating around aimlessly out there? After being disconnected, they seem to have no apparent function other than occupying valuable storage space and being mostly ugly? The object of this exercise is to offer a simple way to make an environmentally friendly use of one of the thousands of satellite dishes that have found their way into the landfills, attics and garages of tho

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Animal Hack – How to Clip Chicken Wings!

Posted on February 7, 2009 by max

Well, I’ve never been too close to live chickens too often in my life, simply due to the fact I enjoy cities more but if you want to learn how to clip chicken wings, here’s how to do it.  It can in fact save your chicken from escaping, getting lost, getting into fights with dogs, and lots of good stuff.

Chickens can’t fly as well as other birds, but they can flap their wings enough to carry them over fences and out of the coop. If you’ve got backyard free range chickens, clipping their wings is a must so that you chickens d

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DIY – How to Make a Birdie Food Shack!

Posted on October 9, 2008 by max

Do you have a home with lots of birds?  Well, you can refer to this DIY on how to make a birdie food shack so you can watch your birds close-up and help them eat nutritious foods.

we’ve been wanting to get a bird feeder to hang outside our living room window for some time now. (hopefully it won’t drive our cats nuts!) this little feeder was inexpensive and easy to make, and we were able to customize it with paint to look like a little snack stand at an amusement park!

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Computer Controlled Intelligent Scarecrow?

Posted on March 13, 2007 by max

video://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uqJOYHwpYfk

Yes, it has been done by students from University of South Florida. Great job guys!  These guys should really make a new start-up company making whole bunch of these for farmers…

Our idea for this project was to develop an “intelligent scarecrow” called the Erebus Scarecrow. The system is designed to protect ponds at a fish farm from bird predators that can cost farmers thousands of dollars in losses. The

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DIY HACK – HOWTO make a Birdfeeder Webcam!

Posted on January 16, 2007 by max

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In case you missed it, here’s HOWTO make a Birdfeeder Webcam. Garrett been telling me how his college project on a webcam birdfeeder webcam has gotten over 30% of his university’s web traffic, now here’s a cool video how you can make one yourself.  There’s also a cool pdf you can download for step-by-step instructions.

Have you ever wondered what

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