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There has been some good information posted here......... I have been a beekeeper for over 15 years (100 plus hives) and a chickenkeeper for over 6 years (50 - 100 chickens). For about a month every spring our honey bees swarm my chicken feeders. They are burrowing in and taking the dust (soy/corn/whatever) back to the hive, it is a pollen replacement for them. Once there is a regular food source (plentifull blooming plants) they would rather collect from the real thing and do. My chickens just kind of duck under the bees, never seen them eat one. The bees all go home early and don't get started till it warms up in the mornings so my chickens have plenty of time to eat their fill. They also get water from my chicken waterers. Normal occurence every year around here, the chickens and bees seem to work it out You could try to put out a few containers of soy flour around but they will probably still find the chicken feed. Most likely temporary......... Check out Grandpas chicken feeders (I think that is what they are called), might be a solution. Chickens have to step on a step for the feeder to open up, they eat, step off and the feeder closes.I have had bees in the feed for the last couple years. They show up early. But this year there are so many my chickens won't go to the feeder. I sprinkle food away but eventually the bees end up swarming there too. Do we just live with it? I love honey bees and their part in our world.