there are lifts...also you can super a warre....I have not tried but have seen online at warre hive store a modified warre that is more hexagonal...I'm liking my warre way better than my top bar...started with two boxes on it and have had to add 2 more already..bees seem happy in it.
Ed donated a bunch of hatching eggs for a classroom project a few years back. I was new to chickens and didn't know what to expect. We had an unexpectedly good hatch rate and I ended up helping several families set up their own flocks. I kept few birds also and now have a small army of buttless...
no need to try to feather sex these as the boys are extremely obvious at just few weeks...btw my chick from a trader joes hen and an araucana roo just started laying the most amazing everyday green/blue eggs. She is rumpless, peacomb, clean faced white with orange flecks.
What I have: hatching eggs from white double tufted rumpless pure araucana roo over the following hens
Pure clean face rumpless araucana
Pure french black copper maran
Frizzled tolbunt
Ameraucana
Bantam cochin
Cream crested legbar
What I want: peafowl eggs to hatch in my classroom
Or really...
I had a hen hatch two chicks out of one egg last summer. It was unexpected! If I hadn't counted the eggs myself I would not have believed it. One twin is doing great. The other was taken by a hawk:(
What I think is holly due to the prickly leaves has yellow fragrant flowers tgen produces purple berries. My chickens and the blue jays fight over them. My chickens are not sick from it.