Anyone have luck catching a feral chicken?? UPDATE: Rooster caught, no hen

[rjohns39]

Yes!
Used to have a recipe long ago that we made for the marching band (in giant trash bags!!!)
But sadly misplaced it
Please do!

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[Smuvers Farm]

Anyone like homemade instant hot coco?

BEEn waiting for this! Kiddo drinks gallons of hot cocoa over winter.

 

[Redhead Rae]

Anyone like homemade instant hot coco?

I would use it, but it is hard (and expensive) to find organic powdered milk. I refuse to use non-organic dairy. I wonder if I can just use the rest of the recipe and use hot milk.

 

[Smuvers Farm]

I'm still considering whether or not we'd like to keep bees. I mean, I KNOW I'd definitely would, but I don't think the neighborhood would draw bees, nor has enough foliage catered to bees. Planning on planting a bunch of butterfly and bee bushes and see what comes. Maybe rethink it again in a few years.

 

[21hens-incharge]

Bees like sunflowers, wild flower mixes, bee balm, fruit trees, salvia and lots more.

I try to plant for blooms for them all season long.

The salvia reblooms all summer and they love it. The sunflowers get really covered in bees during bloom.

They are interesting to watch and fun to have around. Really even wild flowers in pots will draw them in.

The chickens don't eat them but they will keep chickens from drinking if that is the only water around. That is one reason I put water stations in my flower beds. You know it's hot when 300 bees are on one water dish.

I change their water every morning.

Just don't want no africanized ones up here.

 

[rjohns39]

I would use it, but it is hard (and expensive) to find organic powdered milk. I refuse to use non-organic dairy. I wonder if I can just use the rest of the recipe and use hot milk.

I would think it would work fine. We chose the milk we used based upon taste more than anything else.

I'm still considering whether or not we'd like to keep bees. I mean, I KNOW I'd definitely would, but I don't think the neighborhood would draw bees, nor has enough foliage catered to bees. Planning on planting a bunch of butterfly and bee bushes and see what comes. Maybe rethink it again in a few years.

Bees get the majority of their pollen from trees and weeds, but they love all the stuff we plant and water is a must. In the summer I'll set out a 5 gallon bucket near their hives. In winter, I use quail waterers with a screen and marbles in the trough to feed them sugar water.

 

[Redhead Rae]

This year we found that the bees love basil and anise. We had both in our garden and they were a massive draw for the bees. we have one other plant the LOVE but I can't remember the name of it. But it had golf ball sized, fringed pom pom like purple flowers.

 

[FlyingNunFarm]

Bees like sunflowers, wild flower mixes, bee balm, fruit trees, salvia and lots more.

I try to plant for blooms for them all season long.

The salvia reblooms all summer and they love it. The sunflowers get really covered in bees during bloom.

They are interesting to watch and fun to have around. Really even wild flowers in pots will draw them in.

The chickens don't eat them but they will keep chickens from drinking if that is the only water around. That is one reason I put water stations in my flower beds. You know it's hot when 300 bees are on one water dish.

I change their water every morning.

Just don't want no africanized ones up here.

I would think it's too cold in northern Colorado for Africanized bees. Bees have a hard time over winter in cold climates.

 

[FlyingNunFarm]

This year we found that the bees love basil and anise. We had both in our garden and they were a massive draw for the bees. we have one other plant the LOVE but I can't remember the name of it. But it had golf ball sized, fringed pom pom like purple flowers.

Allium.

 

[21hens-incharge]

Yes it gets to cold for them up here.

They do like onion blooms too. The allium are a super fun bulb to grow too.