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[kwhites634]

Quote: Ain't you just a fountain of information this morning!

Good morning

 

[BantyChooks]

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If I were much better I couldn't stand it. I hope you're the same.
Beautiful morning for a ride; at least here. The kind of morning that makes me wish I still had horses.

I sure am!

Nice here as well... Since I can't ride I have to settle for jogging.... But it would be so much nicer horseback.

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[Pensmaster]

 Hello there.
A tad early for you, ain't it?

Yes for a holiday but I forgot to turn off the phone alarm. Arrrgh

Anyway I got to thinking we do use tie downs quite a bit here and remember nail that we used to call teco nail. Spelling I'm sure is wrong it may have been a nickname we gave them.

This is what Simpson recommends on some of their straps and tie down clips


https://www.strongtie.com/strongdri.../strong-drive-scn-smooth-shank-connector-nail

 

[ChickenCanoe]

Association of pesticides and bee toxicity and colony collapse disorder.
http://www.anh-usa.org/pesticides-definitively-linked-to-bee-colony-collapse/

One third of all US cropland is treated with the new neonicotinoid insecticides which are highly toxic to bees. That makes sense since one third of all colonies fail to survive every year.

 

[OneMountainAcres]

These two have basically become inseparable already. They spend the entire day cuddled up together, talking to each other or following each other around. This morning, Cocoa and Mira were sharing scrambled eggs

 

[Akrnaf2]

CCD? Your "beloved" Monsanto!

MY beloved Monsanto? Not mine.
Monsanto is trying to embrace beekeeping to thwart criticism of roundup ready and other gmo crops.
They give meeting space to the Eastern Missouri Beekeepers at their world headquarters here.
They also purchased beelogics, a bee research company headquartered in both Israel and Florida. Their work is primarily with Israeli Acute Paralysis Virus which originated in Australia but was found and named in Israel. Most of the research has been done at Hebrew University in Jerusalem.
Good luck with Florida having any bees to study with combating Zika.

 
Isn't there a European strain of honeybee that, if it gets in with your own bees, will kill them all? Seems to me I read that somewhere.

Honeybees are European. There is no honeybee that is native to the western hemisphere. They first were brought here by colonists 400 years ago. Native Americans called it the White Man's fly.
They couldn't cross the Rockies but were brought to California by ship in the 1850s.
You may be thinking of African bees that have come up from Brazil after they were brought there in the 1950s in hopes of breeding a bee better able to handle that climate. Problem is they spread across the hemisphere.
They interbreed with our European bees. The thought was that crossing with Europeans would make them more docile - that hasn't happened.
The reason they have not become more docile and are able to take over the hive is that when a hive decides to build supersedure cells to grow new queens, the African queens emerge a day before European queens. So the first African queen kills all the other queens. Same thing happens in all swarmed hives because there can only be one queen but the early emergence insures that the offspring will be African.

I know that the CCD is not only because of the IAPV, It seems lik A combination of things, and Monsanto systematic insecticides have a meaningful oart of it.

 

[BantyChooks]

These two have basically become inseparable already. They spend the entire day cuddled up together, talking to each other or following each other around. This morning, Cocoa and Mira were sharing scrambled eggs

 

[Akrnaf2]

No you dont! YOU REELY DON'T! You're addicted to the SHORT TIME INFLUENCES of the feeling that NEW chicks /duckling give you! After week or two you remains wite the endless chores of ever growing flock. TAKE A GRIP ON YOURSELF!

I love my flock no matter how cute or ugly, old or young, mean or friendly. Yes, I love the babies, but they're just as round, webbed, and adorbs all grown up.... Endless chores?? Not even close.... I love every second of it!

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I was more hoping for a x-large chocolate bar..... Good morning everyone!!

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Good afternoon, Benny. I don't suppose y'all observe Labor Day; regular school day for you?

Yes indeed, Can you pleas explain what the meaning of it?

 

[BantyChooks]

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@Fire Ant Farm Where did you go?

 

[Pensmaster]

Good morning to all the early raisers!

Evening Benny. Hope your day went well. Suns not up here but we're starting without it.