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The National Agricultural Fieldays is an annual national agricultural show and field day event held in mid-June at the Mystery Creek Events Centre near Hamilton, New Zealand. It styles itself as "the biggest agricultural trade show in the southern hemisphere". Fieldays attracts 1,000 exhibitors and over 115,000 visitors through its gates. [1]
World Farm Animals Day [140] October 2 World Habitat Day: First Monday of October World Animal Day: October 4 National Badger Day [141] [142] [143] October 6 World Octopus Day [144] [145] [146] October 8 Energy Efficiency Day [147] First Wednesday in October International Day for Natural Disaster Reduction: October 13 International E-Waste Day ...
The Tenacious Unicorn Ranch was a queer and transgender community and working ranch in Custer County, Colorado, United States. [1] [2] Located in a conservative part of Colorado, [3] members of the ranch often carried firearms and wore body armor due to harassment and threats of violence against the community, particularly from local right-wing militias.
Alpacas were domesticated thousands of years ago. The Moche people of Northern Peru often used alpaca images in their art. [6] Traditionally, alpaca were bred and raised in herds, grazing on the level meadows and escarpments of the Andes, from Ecuador and Peru to Western Bolivia and Northern Chile, typically at an altitude of 3,500 to 5,000 metres (11,000 to 16,000 feet) above sea level. [7]
Llamas and alpacas were usually pastured high up in the Andes above cultivatable land, at 4,000 meters (13,000 ft) elevation and even higher. [20] Llamas and alpacas were very important providing "wool, meat, leather, moveable wealth," and "transportation." [9] The Inca also bred and domesticated ducks and guinea pigs as a source of meat. [21]
Ambury Regional Park (also known as Ambury Farm) is a regional park situated on the coast of Manukau Harbour, in Auckland in New Zealand's North Island. It is situated in the suburb of Māngere Bridge and in the local board area of Māngere-Ōtāhuhu , to the west of Māngere Mountain .
In British Columbia, the Range Regulation defines "animal unit month" for purposes of the Range Act. Effectively, the regulation assigns animal unit equivalents of 1 for a cow (either by herself or with an unweaned calf), 0.7 for a yearling of the genus Bos, 1.5 for a bull, 1.25 for a horse, 0.2 for a sheep, 0.2 for a llama, and 0.1 for an alpaca.
Calls upon the people of the U.S. to celebrate the day with appropriate cleanup activities. States may move the day if inclement weather takes place on the first Saturday after Labor Day. 36 U.S.C. § 104: September 7–13 (Floating Sunday) National Grandparents Day: Calls upon the people of the U.S. to celebrate the day with appropriate ...