We have had the bees in place for 10 days now. There are 2 hives, and each started out with 5 active frames from a nuc (nucleus colony). We put 3 empty frames with just wax foundation for them to start building.
Today, I went out to see how they have been putting all that sugar water to use.
Busy days on the farm for sure… until next time!
My kids love honey.
That, my friends, is one of the greatest understatements ever. My youngest would eat it on anything and everything. PB&H is his go-to sandwich.
Truth be known, we adults love it, too 🙂
We all have heard that local honey is best. True that. It is also expensive. A budget buster at the rate we go through it.
I have some good friends who started keeping honeybees last year, and I always thought it would work out well… maybe we could barter eggs for honey once their honey production was up.
Then I realized I would need a LOT more chickens (and they’d need a LOT more bees) in order for that to be anywhere near a workable solution.
Jokingly, I mentioned to Jerry that we should get our own bees and teach the kids how to be beekeepers and raise our own honey.
Funny how a joke can turn. Continue reading Adding an Apiary
This chicks have now been OUT of their shells about as long as they were IN them (it takes right at 21 days for a chick to become a chick).
They are looking rather scraggly as they are in that molting place – shedding more and more of the fluffy down and trading it for their first feathers. I tried to get a close up picture, but here is what happened:
They all crammed in the corner, making it quite difficult to get a good picture. Although you can see a little bit of what I’m talking about with the scraggly-looking feather/down combo.
The little gals are starting to check out what those wing feathers will do, and they have plenty of room to practice. The brooder starts to look like some sort of chaotic runway at times.
Here’s a quick glimpse into the activity of 3 week old chicks:
Until next time…
