Ducks and Bees 2nd question

[nao57]

I couldn't help but notice also how many beekeepers have ducks. :O Really!

 

[Scrumdidlyump]

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I couldn't help but notice also how many beekeepers have ducks. :O Really!

or how many duckkeepers have bees!

 

[BirdsBeesTrees]

My duck keeps putting her nest of eggs right beside one of my hives! I keep removing them, I want her to find a new spot...
If it's really dry out I'll put out water for the bees and a splash of bleach... they love it! It keeps them out of the swimming pool.

 

[writerskramp]

So previously, I'd asked if you can have ducks and honey bees in the same property and if they will coexist fairly peacefully.

Many of you generously responded positively. And I'm very thankful.

But a new question popped up in relation to it...

If ducks are filthy in their water and extremely messy... (and they are), and if bees are making honey out of that water, is that going to be a problem for having unmentionables and terrible germs in the honey?

This part has me worried.

I don't have the bees yet but I have the ducks.

Are they going to have to have separate water systems? But how would you do that without the ducks just going naturally over to the second water source also? Especially since they love water almost more than anything, it sounds like it would be pretty difficult to keep them separate?

Have some of you faced this before? What do you suggest?

Bees drink stump water in Spring and end up with dysentery.. Essentially poop themselves too death.. That is where Tetracycline comes in the waterer, but you can't get there from here anymore.. There may be a solution.. don't know for sure. Perhaps fish anti-biotics.. same stuff. Would worry more about the ducks eating the bees..

 

[writerskramp]

I couldn't help but notice also how many beekeepers have ducks. :O Really!

Don't have ducks.. They'd cross the country highway down to the river.. Miss Kitty didn't make it one time.. Setting up some empty hives with starter.. Good luck to me. I swarm it.

 

[writerskramp]

My duck keeps putting her nest of eggs right beside one of my hives! I keep removing them, I want her to find a new spot...
If it's really dry out I'll put out water for the bees and a splash of bleach... they love it! It keeps them out of the swimming pool.

NO BLEACH! Did I say that loud enough? NO! BLEACH!

 

[BirdsBeesTrees]

NO BLEACH! Did I say that loud enough? NO! BLEACH!

Uhh... They will drink the bleach water out of the pool anyway.
Maybe you aren't aware that it is a form of bleach everyone is treating bees for varroa mites is called Oxalic acid and it's wood bleach.

 

[writerskramp]

Uhh... They will drink the bleach water out of the pool anyway.
Maybe you aren't aware that it is a form of bleach everyone is treating bees for varroa mites is called Oxalic acid and it's wood bleach.

You got me on that one, but have heard of Oxalic acid.. What they do voluntarily is one thing.. Mucking up is another.. Let em' drink from the pool, if that is their thing. Chlorine evaporates out post haste, or your pool wouldn't be so much work and expense..