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[Okla-doodle-doo]

P&B is canola a yellow flower? I saw a field the other day that was about 18-24 inches tall and solid yellow! The plant itself was blueish green looked like it might belong to the cabage family. This was a planted field,we are talking 50-75 acres! Sure was pretty.

 

[poultryand bees]

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I will cheerfully talk to anyone about bees, who has questions. I will also be bringing some raw honey and spun honey (not from my hives) for sale.

Someday I would like to put the front of the place in Alfalfa and bees just naturally go with that. I have noticed too that they use bees to polinate Canola. Does the honey take on the dead thing/rotten cabbage smell of the Canola when it is blooming?

Canola and alfalfa both produce excellent flavored honey. Beekeepers want to avoid honey made with pollen from broom weed however, since that has a flavor that will curl your toes. (beware of beekeepers with a warped sense of humor offering you a taste of honey that is "special.")

 

[Okla-doodle-doo]

P&B my niece is comming with me,we are both quilters and would love to see some of it.

 

[Teach97]

I don't trust nobody that is really intent on gettingme to taste, smell, or anything out of the ordinary! I am around kids way too much and know what I like to pull!

had a guy running around one time with pieces of habenero peppers laughing at folks as they gasped in agony...I grabbed the pepper and took a bite...I held the sweat in and everything...managed to talk normal. He is still scared of me! it hurt so bad but it was worth it!

you gotta ask Doc about picking peppers when we were kids

 

[nnbreeder]

That is odd because broom weed has a kind of sweet smell when cut with a brush hog or mower.

 

[Teach97]

you ever smelled peanut hay? that is the best stuff in the world. Worked on a project in college and we had to grind all sorts of stuff looking at it for nutrients and digestability in ruminants...anyways....we w ould fight over grinding (actually chopping) the peanut...only part that was horrible was cleaning up...had to wash the chopper and those blades were deadly!

also worked with feathers...those were not so good smelling even after the processing they went through not to mention you had this dust that hing in the air...

 

[poultryand bees]

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Yes, it is a yellow flower. A few years ago, it was thought that canola would be the best crop for honeybees in Oklahoma. It was a good pollen source for a few years and then, farmers switched to GMO canola. Plants that are GMO are not good pollen sources.

 

[poultryand bees]

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I will check and see if my recollection of the plant source is accurate. It might have been stinkweed honey.

 

[nnbreeder]

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Yes, it is a yellow flower. A few years ago, it was thought that canola would be the best crop for honeybees in Oklahoma. It was a good pollen source for a few years and then, farmers switched to GMO canola. Plants that are GMO are not good pollen sources.

I bet it is the GMO that is overwintered like Wheat so it can be double cropped. The last two years I have noticed that it is being overwintered around here.

On a sad note they are swathing wheat here and cutting it for silage. Weather was too much for it this year.

 

[nnbreeder]

Teach we feed a lot of Cow Pea hay to the horses along with lower quality grass hay. It keeps them in good condition through the winter. And the chickens love the peas that fall out while the horses are eating. Keeps everyone in good condition.