bees

Just wanted to say hello from NC! Love the site!!!

I have been debating getting into bees for several months now. I have a good friend that is guiding me through my newbee endeavor. The holdup was getting my wife to agree to it. She is scared to get stung, so I assured her they would bee placed somewhere way out out her way. She signed off on it...

I’ve had this hive for three years without having worked on it once. My aunt had been volunteering to harvest it twice during the past couple of years. I’d really like to take a crack at it, but I’m pretty scared about it. The trouble is that it’s in such a tight space. I know the routine of...

i’m new to growing things (before this year, literally the only thing i grew was a strawberry plant) and i dunno what’s wrong with it but this sunflower is so wonky? i’m not too bothered, i just think it looks funny. i’m assuming it’s because it bloomed late and maybe the frost kinda affected...

Not sure I am posting in the proper forum. Am thinking of keeping honey bees but don’t know how compatible it would be with my chickens. I have 5 pullets free roaming in approximately 1/4 acre, the bees would be in the same area.

I thought this was an interesting article out of the Old Farmer’s Almanac 2019. Telling The Bees A swarm of facts, folklore, and traditions By Tim Clark For thousands of years, human beings have shared a special bond with bees. Bees are not truly domesticated; their relationship with humans...

Hey y’all! We have had our chicken coop for a little over a year now and yesterday I noticed some Carpernter bee “scouts” in my chicken yard!!! Our coup is not painted but sealed with some industrial strength wood sealer. Should I still be concerned about the possibility of those pesky bees...

I have two female ducks a rouen and a pekin. Today while i was cleaning their coop i found a dead bee(probably a honeybee) and my rouen (daisy) acting weird. I felt there might be sometheing wrong with her so I brought her inside the house, she was sleepy since she came inside; she was always so...

This year I switched property insurances and this year I bought 6 chickens and bought a bee hive.rhey sent an inspecty my front yard is perfect I walked the inspector to the backyard and explained I had fenced in the backyard chicken wire to get to back yard we have to go though garage. I said...

My orchard is young, this is year 6. I have almost no fruit on my trees this year. Last year my pears and my apples were heavy, well not heavy, heavy but with enough fruit to need thinning. This year I have probably a third of that? I am afraid that our bee/pollinator populations must be...

Howdy all! My name is Mandy. My mom and I just co-borrowed on a great home in east Austin with a decently sized plot. Looking to get a few animals set up and rockin' back there. I've owned chickens in the past and loved them, but none right now. I had bearded silkies and seabrights, just what...

Last week we got a hen. Mum brought her home. Today we got bees. They brought themselves. :barnie It had started out as such a normal morning. Peggy had been let out to peck around the lawn. Mum was reading last month's issue of Women's Weekly. I was entertaining myself with whatever youtube...

Good evening, everyone! I'm new to chickens. I got 18 chooks about 1 month ago from a neighbour who was moving. The ladies are all about 1-2 years, and laying pretty well (10-12/day), considering the weather (chilly) and the fact that daylight is still relatively short. Ive never had chickens...

New to chickens have none yet, looking for friendly chickens that will be in the back yard with my two bee hives. Want to keep them and the Bees healthy without medications. Prefer to have six or so chickens and haven’t built a coop for them yet looking after March for the right birds. Would...

Looking for somebody with beekeeping experience. I've been considering keeping bees and I just moved to a new home that backs up to a marsh (however, it is in a neighborhood), so it seems like a good opportunity to get started. - I've been told/read that you do not need a lot of land to keep...

Hi fellow chicken-lovers! My name is Amy and I am a new member of the flock... finally! After reading more threads than I could count on this site for the past year I have finally JOINED your group! Here are the answers to the suggested questions: (1) Are you new to chickens / when did...

(1) Are you new to chickens / when did you first get chickens? Pretty new. We started with (5) RIR in May of 2016. (2) How many chickens do you have right now? (6) RIR (3) Buff Orpingtons (2) Silver Laced Wyandottes (1) Delaware (1) Americauna/RIR mix (1) Wheaton Maran (4) Maran babies that we...