BREEDING FOR PRODUCTION...EGGS AND OR MEAT.

[CanadianBuckeye]

Too bad there's no way to make those Asian carp taste like Tilapia.

 

[DesertChic]

Well, we spent most of the day trapped in our house because a massive swarm of Africanized bees took up residence in the tree outside our front door. It took the bee removal guy two trips to get rid of them. He said it was a swarm of over 20,000 bees, and they were NOT friendly.

 

[JiltdRoyalty]

Good lord, Chic! Be careful! Lol

 

[ejcrist]

Geeze a whiz that must've put a damper on things. I hope your animals weren't in harm's way. Hope the coast is clear now.

 

[bluejean55girl]

Well, we spent most of the day trapped in our house because a massive swarm of Africanized bees took up residence in the tree outside our front door. It took the bee removal guy two trips to get rid of them. He said it was a swarm of over 20,000 bees, and they were NOT friendly.
 

thems some mean boogers, glad you are safe.

 

[CanadianBuckeye]

That's scary! I sure wouldn't want that job, dealing with 20,000 hostile bees. Hopefully they are all dead. I've read about those Japanese giant hornets, those are even scarier.

 

[DesertChic]

I was nearly having an anxiety attack just watching the guy spray the bees as they crawled all over him, stinging his suit dozens of times. The guy's wife sat in the house with us and watched from the window, saying over and over again, "He's fine. I'm sure he's fine. Oh! He just got stung again....but he's fine." Thankfully, even though the bees were also flying around the backyard where the chickens roam, none of the animals (or people) got hurt. This is the second swarm we've had to deal with in less than two weeks, and the worst one we've ever had. This is one of the worst bee seasons Arizona has seen to date.

Now I just need to get my paranoia in check. I swear that everything now sounds like a swarm of angry bees heading my way.

 

[Kusanar]

I was nearly having an anxiety attack just watching the guy spray the bees as they crawled all over him, stinging his suit dozens of times. The guy's wife sat in the house with us and watched from the window, saying over and over again, "He's fine. I'm sure he's fine. Oh! He just got stung again....but he's fine." Thankfully, even though the bees were also flying around the backyard where the chickens roam, none of the animals (or people) got hurt. This is the second swarm we've had to deal with in less than two weeks, and the worst one we've ever had. This is one of the worst bee seasons Arizona has seen to date.

Now I just need to get my paranoia in check. I swear that everything now sounds like a swarm of angry bees heading my way.

I wonder if there would be any way to make a trap like the fly traps so they go in a funnel and then can't get back out, and put something like honey or something the bees want in there... then over heat them... Bees can't handle heat very well, pretty easy to cook them... of course, if you try it, it needs to be something you can trigger from the house...

 

[ejcrist]

I think the way most bee keepers handle them is to put a box with pheromones near the swarm and they naturally stuff themselves in the box. That's the way I've read they capture swarms anyway. I was considering getting a bee hive a little while back and I read and watched videos on how they do it. When my wife found out I was thinking about getting bees she made it clear that wasn't going to happen. She's pretty good about most things I want to do but I could tell this wasn't one of them.

 

[AnthNDacula]

So I just collected data on my chicks for the first time. These were the first 5 Silver Gray Dorkings from P. Allen Smith's line to reach 1 month. It was really interesting that when I actually recorded data on each numbered chick (thanks to Lpatelski's chicken jewelry) I was able to see differences I'd never have noticed just looking at them in the pen. There was a clear leader at 12 oz. and a clear loser at 9 oz. The largest chick scored consistently high on every marker from head width to body depth and looks like it might be a cockerel. Another chick weighed in at 12 oz. as well but the markers were less consistent. It had a little less length of back but a little more heart girth and might be a pullet. Another interesting point is that the genders are not clearly apparent yet at one month while my Marans were pretty clear at 2 weeks.