A century of Turkey talk 2000-2100.

[duluthralphie]

DH and my dad are getting very interested in bees. There's a guy in Stevensville selling 5 frame filled out nucs with fresh mated queens of both sicillian and carolinian, seriously thinking about it, but we would need to pick up some hives, too. There seem to be a lot of different hive types to choose from. They would live outside in the big tree hay field, next to said Big Tree, a big old plains cottonwood surrounded by chokecherries and currants. All the ag is folding up around us as the land becomes commercial or residential, but for now our land will be safe for a number of years yet. No big sprayers nearby, anyways.

To Make this geemaine to the thread. Turkeys won’t eat the bees…


Stick with conventional langstroth hives. It appears in the cold they work better than the hippie ones.

My brother in SC said it did not even work for his light winters.

 

[R2elk]

To Make this geemaine to the thread. Turkeys won’t eat the bees…

Mine like to perch on the hives. At least they keep the kingbirds away.

 

[Bantambird]

Mine like to perch on the hives. At least they keep the kingbirds away.

I actually had a big nest of kingbirds in my russian olive tree last year. They had a brood of 5 chicks. The stupid wasps love to nest under the eves of my hay barn, and those kingbirds did a real number on the wasps, at least. The turkeys made a lot of noise when the baby kingbirds were lining up along the branches to fly away.

 

[R2elk]

I actually had a big nest of kingbirds in my russian olive tree last year. They had a brood of 5 chicks. The stupid wasps love to nest under the eves of my hay barn, and those kingbirds did a real number on the wasps, at least. The turkeys made a lot of noise when the baby kingbirds were lining up along the branches to fly away.

Kingbirds do a real number on honeybees too.

 

[Huntmaster]

Been able to get a few of my breeding pens sorted out with breeding groups for this spring. But have much more sorting to go for other pens, had to process 10 more hens yesterday to free up more of my pens. Hopefully in next week or 2 I will have everything ready sorted and in their breeding pens for spring.

 

[Huntmaster]

Warmed up these last few days making things a little sloppy and put a stop to sorting today. Supposed to get back to colder temps starting tonight so things should freeze back up so I can get finished up. Just hope it doesn't make things to slippery from ice forming.

 

[R2elk]

It got up to 61°F here today. Pretty dry everywhere.

 

[Huntmaster]

It got up to 61°F here today. Pretty dry everywhere.

Only 40 degrees here with snow and ice melting making it a little sloppy on top. Just enough to make it nice and slippery. Not going to dry up here for a while. Best I can hope for is staying frozen for now.

 

[R2elk]

Only 40 degrees here with snow and ice melting making it a little sloppy on top. Just enough to make it nice and slippery. Not going to dry up here for a while. Best I can hope for is staying frozen for now.

Things dry out very quickly on this sand dune.

 

[Huntmaster]

Things dry out very quickly on this sand dune.

Mostly clay here takes forever to dry out water just sits there.