Who Keeps Bees and Poultry?

[BirdsBeesTrees]

@CatWhisperer how are your hives doing?

 

[WthrLady]

Lost all mine to honey months.

 

[BirdsBeesTrees]

Lost all mine to honey months.

Wax moths are little devils, and hive beetles. I'm sorry to hear this.

 

[WthrLady]

Wax moths are little devils, and hive beetles. I'm sorry to hear this.

Luckily, the vast majority of the bees left and weren't consumed. So at least they're out there somewhere. I am SHOCKED at how fast it all happened. One week they were fine and had plenty of honey and brood, the next week's check, it was mayhem.

 

[CatWhisperer]

@CatWhisperer how are your hives doing?

They are doing great right now, busy bees!

 

[BirdsBeesTrees]

Luckily, the vast majority of the bees left and weren't consumed. So at least they're out there somewhere. I am SHOCKED at how fast it all happened. One week they were fine and had plenty of honey and brood, the next week's check, it was mayhem.

Are you going to buy a package of bees in January or try to get a swarm?

 

[WthrLady]

Swarms fair FAR FAR better here than packages. We are surrounded by commercial beekeepers and swarms are plentiful.

 

[WthrLady]

Swarms fair FAR FAR better here than packages. We are surrounded by commercial beekeepers and swarms are plentiful.

Adding in we swap swarms here so we can get the swarm far enough from where they came from, otherwise they head towards home.

 

[BirdsBeesTrees]

Installed a new package of Saskatraz bees on Saturday evening.
It had been raining all day, and was cold and windy; like every other time we've gotten our package bees installed.
Putting sugar syrup on them to install them in that cold made us (my husband and I) worry we might have killed them.
But I checked them today:

 

[BirdsBeesTrees]

The new bees are making comb crazy fast. I saw eggs but couldn't locate the queen as it's another windy day out today...
They were bringing in some bright pink pollen.
These bees went into the regular Langstroth hive.