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🐝💗Our Backyard Beekeeping Journey!💗🐝
The Rocky Mountain Bee Plant is done bloomiing here. The seed pods are ripening.- R2elk
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🐝💗Our Backyard Beekeeping Journey!💗🐝
These are also in full bloom here. I have never seen anything other than ants on the sagebrush.- R2elk
- Post #771
- Forum: Other Pets & Livestock
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Guinea Lost its Helmet!
Wrap it loosely in a towel to help control it. Another option is to paint the area with New Skin. It does burn at first on an open wound but forms a clear protective coating. It needs to be reapplied every couple of days but will not burn when being put over the initial application.- R2elk
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- Forum: Guinea Fowl
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🐝💗Our Backyard Beekeeping Journey!💗🐝
160°F is important to me because it is the temperature that I use to scald poultry. It is also important for honey. Never heat honey above 160°F. "Heating honey above 160°F for any period causes rapid degradation and caramelization." For making sugar syrup, I boil the water which is well...- R2elk
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🐝💗Our Backyard Beekeeping Journey!💗🐝
Not my method. I don't make 2:1, ever. I use 1:1 in the spring. I bring up the set amount of water needed to make "x" number of quarts up to a boil. Boil for 1 to 2 minutes. Remove from heat, pour in an equal amount of sugar. Stir as it quickly dissolves. At this time of year, the local...- R2elk
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- Forum: Other Pets & Livestock
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Guinea Lost its Helmet!
There is no reason it shouldn't be able to recover but it is highly unlikely that the casque will grow back. BTW it is fine to use antibiotics with pain relievers when being used as a topical ointment. I do think you are overdoing it with the twice a day cleanings. I would have painted the...- R2elk
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Your 2025 Garden
They were fine when I watered yesterday. Today they were split. The yellow one was pretty inside with a light pink tone but was pretty tasteless. Haven't cut into the red one yet. I had one like it earlier that was very good. -
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Name 3 Things You Did Or Will Do Today
Picked grapes. Turned off the noise maker. Will take down the bird netting. Found 2 cracked watermelons. Put in refrigerator, will eat later.- R2elk
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🐝💗Our Backyard Beekeeping Journey!💗🐝
Rocky Mountain Bee Plant seeds- R2elk
- Post #759
- Forum: Other Pets & Livestock
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Guess When BYC's muddy75 Will Reach 30k Messages!
2,313 messages until 40,000.- R2elk
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- Forum: Random Ramblings
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I sold one of my turkeys
I often let a turkey hen raise poults for me. I put the poults in a pen and then bring in the hen. Watch carefully to see the reactions. If she starts cooing at them, she will accept them and raise them for you. If she starts pecking at them, remove her immediately. It is normal for a... -
Neurological Issues in Guineas
Never had that problem. Guineas have very fragile legs that can easily be damaged by mishandling. The tendency to slipped tendons can be genetic and related to improper feed. Some birds can have an inherited tendency to the inability to properly properly absorb calcium. This tendency can be...- R2elk
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Is this blackhead?
Mine love BOSS but since it is low protein and high in fat, it is best to not give a lot of it. Right now my native plums are ripe and my poultry love them too, minus the seed of course. I am sure the stress of being separated isn't helping her. -
🐝💗Our Backyard Beekeeping Journey!💗🐝
Pretty blue flowers. I think I will pass on them. "Scilla siberica, the Siberian squill or wood squill, is a species of flowering plant in the family Asparagaceae, native to southwestern Russia, the Caucasus, and Turkey. Despite its name, it is not native to Siberia. Many parts of the plant...- R2elk
- Post #752
- Forum: Other Pets & Livestock
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3-4mo old turkeys dying
Make sure that you are not giving them garlic. Garlic is an allium. Alliums are known to be toxic to poultry. One of the main symptoms is anemia. -