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A member of Bee source in Great Lakes Region of New York posted an image I find alarming. I'll zoom and crop the image and subsequent...

Using this weekend to attempt and put a dent in my bee equipment upkeep. Always so far behind. Have frames from a bear taking out a yard...

Agreed, move before the foragers fix on the location of the trap. late evening or very early morning I put a screen over the entrance...

Other than black I've never seen a chicken with anything but bay colored eyes. As chicks they have green eyes and maybe what you saw...

Wild apple and crab apple trees are opening up here. Dandelion hit peak bloom, another week or so of that. Should have lilac in a week...

Must be southern IL. Locust blooms in June here.

Northeast Kingdom at 1200 ft blossom report- Tuesdays sun brought forth the first few Dandelion and started blossoms on cherry trees...

I hear you about overwintered Nucs getting very crowded. The ones that didn't run low on stores are booming! That's where I got the...

Rainy and cold here. Made two splits last week to stop swarming, bees are moving forward in spite of the weather. I'll have to split...

Warmer weather has taken its time to arrive. Unwrapped hives and completed full inspections last week then reversed boxes. Was...

Hatchery stock are not very dual purpose. They are smaller and thinner than their breed implies. They lay more eggs than breeder stock...

To specifically get hatchery stock that do not flesh out like breeder stock and are prone to aggression for the sake of sex links seems...

They really don't care about the light. As chicks they eat and sleep. Middle of the the day they'll just flop and be sleeping in an...

You don't say what color you're looking for, but if I read the rest of your post correctly your goal is Blue Mottled? If so, mottled is...

If you happen to have cod liver oil it's a great Vitamin D supplement to pour on feed. Little boost for spring laying.