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[Sooner]

I don't like the cold & it's really hard when we have so much warm first.

I guess I will be at Blanchard then! I look forward to it.

 

[Poco Pollo]

The other day someone on here was talking about bee equipment, honey extracters etc. May have been Poco I think ?? Anyway, I have a friend in Clinton that used to have lots of bees and sold honey. He hasnt in sometime. He may be interested in selling his extracters and other equipment. If you are interested I will ask.

Yes, I'm the one who was thinking out loud about bee equipment. If your friend is interested in selling, I may be interested in buying. I can pay used prices for used equipment, but I'm not in a position to pay new prices for used equipment, if you know what I mean... I have looked at some supposedly new equipment that actually had wax and bee parts in it... and the guy didn't even blink when I pointed these things out. He just insisted that the equipment was new and had never been used. I could have been interested if he'd been honest and said it was used, and for how long, but he stuck to his straight-from-the-factory story so I apologized for taking up his time and left.

 

[poultryand bees]

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I have decided that since there is a beekeeper with a licensed honey house about 40 minutes away from me who will process my honey for $5 per super (8-10 frames of honey), it isn't worth my time or money to buy processing equipment myself. He does the processing, I leave with my wet frames and a bucket of honey ready to pour into jars. He keeps the sticky in his honey house.

Yes, there isn't any way that equipment is manufactured complete with wax and bee parts from the factory

 

[Poco Pollo]

Morning, P&B

I love the idea of being able to extract my own honey. I know I won't have honey the first year, but after that I think my colony will be large enough and productive enough, and I'll look forward to harvesting honey with as much enthusiasm as I feel counting down to hatch dates.

Speaking of hatch dates, I loaned a friend an incubator and some eggs, and this morning she has eight new babies chirping, hopping, and playing egg hockey. There are seven more eggs that haven't hatched yet, so maybe she will have a full brooder soon. Hatching was a home-schooling adventure, and I'm anticipating it will lead her kids to investigate other topics.

 

[SimplyMe_AngieD]

I want to do this for our home school adventure. Also for 4H project adventure. Some one told me that I can get loaner hatchers and brooders from the extension office so I am going to call them today.

Morning, P&B

I love the idea of being able to extract my own honey. I know I won't have honey the first year, but after that I think my colony will be large enough and productive enough, and I'll look forward to harvesting honey with as much enthusiasm as I feel counting down to hatch dates.

Speaking of hatch dates, I loaned a friend an incubator and some eggs, and this morning she has eight new babies chirping, hopping, and playing egg hockey. There are seven more eggs that haven't hatched yet, so maybe she will have a full brooder soon. Hatching was a home-schooling adventure, and I'm anticipating it will lead her kids to investigate other topics.

 

[Oakieridge]

I want to do this for our home school adventure. Also for 4H project adventure. Some one told me that I can get loaner hatchers and brooders from the extension office so I am going to call them today.

Let us know what you find out. I would love to hatch some at home so my boys can see the steps and learn all about it. We homeschool as well and they are learning a ton with us having just the little babies in the house this weekend. We bought a book at one of the auctions in Harrah this weekend about hatching eggs and my 9year old has been harboring it as his, lol.

Cathie

 

[old*cowboy]

Yes, I'm the one who was thinking out loud about bee equipment. If your friend is interested in selling, I may be interested in buying. I can pay used prices for used equipment, but I'm not in a position to pay new prices for used equipment, if you know what I mean... I have looked at some supposedly new equipment that actually had wax and bee parts in it... and the guy didn't even blink when I pointed these things out. He just insisted that the equipment was new and had never been used. I could have been interested if he'd been honest and said it was used, and for how long, but he stuck to his straight-from-the-factory story so I apologized for taking up his time and left.

I will ask him one day this week. He may not want to sell. People are funny that way. He will probable never get back into bee keeping due to health reasons, but some people just like hanging on to stuff. But if he does want to sell, he will be fair on his price I think. I will let you know and if he does I will give you his contact info so I am not in deal.

 

[jcatblum]

I hate to bring bad news but I don't think there is going to be an auction the 4th saturday in February. I didn't hear the reason but last time they said only 1 sale in feb on the 11th.

Watch out with hatching eggs as a homeschool project-- that is how we started. Now we have over 150 birds & DD thinks all eggs were ment to be hatched!

Of the copper maran eggs-- I has had 23 hatch-- several more are still making progress. One of the 23 has feathered feet-- but it is also brown with stripes... If I am lucky it will be a pullet that lays olive green eggs.

Now I am going to talk myself into getting a few things done on the todo list & then a quick trip to the post office & the school to work on candy grams.

 

[lynn1961]

The olive green eggs look so pretty. The wellsummer x easter egger cross pullets I have are starting to lay ! So far there have been olive colored ones, olive with spots, army green, pink, and pink with spots.The birds are pretty, some look like welsummers with beards and muffs, some look like easter eggers, all have yellow legs though.

 

[lynn1961]

The hatch that I have going now (started hatching saturday ) have been very cute, full wellsummer babies, welsummer looking babies with poofey looking head and beards. The cross pullets that just started laying started laying sooner than the welsummer or easter eggers have in the past.
The little boy that lives down from us ( he is 5 ) likes to feed the chickens when they come over to get eggs, he always wants to take one home, he is such a cute little boy, anyway I have become an enbler. Yesterday I sent him and his dad home with 12 fuzzy butts, a portable brooder and chick feed so that he can have his own chikens, he was so excited, he told me now you can come to my house and get eggs and feed chickens.