Helpful hints for building coops

[NewBoots]

Honey bees, and bumble bees = awesome, and we'll be encouraging the bumble bees to nest along the fence lines. We have mason bee boxes that we'll take with us to the new place, great early pollinators. Yellow jackets = jerks and I've been told baldfaced hornets are worse.

 

[boggart]

I have no hints myself (yet) but my grandmother got these intriguing books for me at the library today, how sweet of her And if I read something particularly interesting or useful I will post it in this thread for sure

 

[NewBoots]

https://www.backyardchickens.com/attachments/45c7f6e4-6ca1-4351-918a-ffbc71770bbd-jpeg.1876207/

That one looks really interesting! "Reinventing the Chicken Coop" in case my link fails. I have a copy of the second one.

 

[jvls1942]

usually I let bees be bees.
I put my hand on the frame of the loader and they bit me. I don't think I provoked them too much.
I can almost ignore a honeybee sting. there is no ignoring the pain of these stingers. and one can sting you as many times as he wishes.
their nest was inches away from my bare knee.
I am not brave enough to drive my tractor like that. sorry, bee, not a bee,spray bomb it is..
.......jiminwisc.....

 

[NewBoots]

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...and let me just say, that European Hornet will be giving me nightmares!

 

[aart]

I have no hints myself (yet) but my grandmother got these intriguing books for me at the library today, how sweet of her

That is sweet, I love the library!
....and have read #1 & #3, pretty pictures but not much logic in them.
Be very careful about taking them at face value,
they can be just as misleading on size and design as prefab coops.

 

[Molpet]

Honey bees, and bumble bees = awesome, and we'll be encouraging the bumble bees to nest along the fence lines. We have mason bee boxes that we'll take with us to the new place, great early pollinators. Yellow jackets = jerks and I've been told baldfaced hornets are worse.

Yellow jackets, especially the German, are jerks and die if they are near the house or where I mow.
Baldface can be aggressive if you get near the nest. However I had a fly problem until they built a nest 15' above a coop in a pine tree. They eat flys... the wood pecker raided the nest late fall and put the larvae under bark for winter snacks

 

[NewBoots]

Baldface can be aggressive if you get near the nest. However I had a fly problem until they built a nest 15' above a coop in a pine tree. They eat flys... the wood pecker raided the nest late fall and put the larvae under bark for winter snacks

Now that is very interesting and so cool! My opinion was completely based on a warning I was given years ago about a baldface nest in a tree in the campground just down the road from my new home. Maybe I jumped to a completely wrong conclusion.

Thanks Molpet

 

[Molpet]

Now that is very interesting and so cool! My opinion was completely based on a warning I was given years ago about a baldface nest in a tree in the campground just down the road from my new home. Maybe I jumped to a completely wrong conclusion.

Thanks Molpet

Lots of times they build about head hight and then they think you are too close when you walk by. I was worried about the ones above the coop, but they just grabbed flys and didn't bother the poultry or me

 

[jvls1942]

well, they started it...
my left forearm from where the wrist bends up to 6 inches still itches unbearably.. just short of being painful.
...jiminwisc...