Yesterday we set about cracking the new hive to see how things are coming along. It's when you open the box and pull the frames out to inspect them one at a time. It's something you're supposed to do regularly as beekeepers, apparently, which we now are... Everything looked great and while it's fun to …
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Buzzing Right Along
The bees have been forced inside for most of the last few days by the weather, but it gave them a chance to get settled into the new hive and set up house. Which they did right away, including assigning undertakers to fly the dead ones off and guards to monitor the entrance. It's so …
Adventures in Homesteading: Meet Our Newest Additions
We finally have a batch of babies after trying and failing to hatch out more than a couple of roosters the last two times we attempted this. Well, once we let the mother hen do it and once we tried using our old incubator but both times we ended up with one single, solitary rooster. …
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Kings and Queens
The chickens were out while we were oiling and setting up the hives yesterday, strutting around in their pasture and enjoying all the spring foraging... The roosters are especially feeling their oats... We haven't found the right spot yet for the pollinator box but our new Flow hive has its own platform. Now we're playing …
Everything in its Place
We're rearranging our lives to accommodate our new hobby, which has already been taking over as much of the upstairs as my gardening fetish has been in the dining room. Don't get me wrong, I love that the hubs is into bee keeping as much as he is, especially since I'm not really into the …