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[sdm111]

Oh, I wasn't criticizing.  Just making an observation.  The animal proteins worked great.  We would use blood meal, meat and bone meal, fish meal..., but now with concerns over accidental contamination, some feeds go so far as to advertise they are animal byproduct free. 

My wife gives me a little bit of a hard time when I give the birds meat scraps, especially if it is chicken!  If we have table scraps, or I clean the bones from a roasted chicken, the birds really go for it.  

nah didn't take it as such all I've been told though was animal over plant

 

[B123]

nah didn't take it as such all I've been told though was animal over plant

Maybe I missed it on the label, but is the feed a pellet or a mixture of the grains with some pellets?

 

[sdm111]

Maybe I missed it on the label, but is the feed a pellet or a mixture of the grains with some pellets?

I used the layer it was a dark brown small pellet that smelled sweet like molasses like u could eat it

Best of all no powder actually got 50lbs of useable pellet not 46 or so

 

[sdm111]

While I have your attention j, totally unrelated but if I were to venture into bees do u get a queen and the others go to her or do u buy all the bees?

 

[centrarchid]

Catch / hive swarm which means all, do a cutout of an existing colony already in a tree or other cavity (all or buy queen), or do a trap-out where you catch workers leaving a colony and provide queen you buy. You can buy package bees with workers and queen. Queen only does not work.

 

[sdm111]

Catch / hive swarm which means all, do a cutout of an existing colony already in a tree or other cavity (all or buy queen), or do a trap-out where you catch workers leaving a colony and provide queen you buy. You can buy package bees with workers and queen. Queen only does not work.

thanks centra my neighbor used to have bees a long time ago in a wooded lot behind me and everyday I see the boxes he had. About 10 or so of course those are unusable

 

[centrarchid]

One or more of those old hives may support a feral colony ripe for re-hiving. Would also be a good colony for issuing a swarm that can be attracted readily with a pheromone strip. The strips are effective. Look up swarm traps in a bee supply catalog. If swarm to be a target you have at most two months to get ready. We caught seven last year with almost no effort. I would start with new or least clean equipment to control disease issues. Older hives that have not been managed are likely to have cross comb making management difficult. Still those hives are easy to work with that cutting a colony out of a tree or building wall.

 

[JShubin]

 

[JShubin]

 

[JShubin]

.....can be attracted readily with a pheromone strip. The strips are effective....

Thats how I got my queen (wife).