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Anyone here raise honey bees?
Posted on 2/16/13 at 7:24 pm
Posted on 2/16/13 at 7:24 pm
Bout to get started doing it soon and was wondering if anyone else here does. City folks need not respond. 
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Posted on 2/16/13 at 7:25 pm to Alahunter
just chickens.
Posted on 2/16/13 at 7:25 pm to Alahunter
Posted on 2/16/13 at 7:25 pm to diddydirtyAubie
I know you're just in it for the peckers.
Posted on 2/16/13 at 7:27 pm to Alahunter
quote:
City folks need not respond.
Posted on 2/16/13 at 7:29 pm to CatFan81
Not much room to raise bees in a city. Although I have known some queen B's from the city.
Posted on 2/16/13 at 7:33 pm to Alahunter
When I was a kid, I remember exploring far back into the woods behind our house. Came up on two white boxes way back in the woods. Was weird because there weren't any houses near them.
Anyway, being the young, dumb, and destructive lil fricker that I was back then, I threw rocks at them to piss off the bees, then tipped one over with a stick and tried to make a run for it.
Got stung at least a half dozen times and was in tears running home.
Anyway, being the young, dumb, and destructive lil fricker that I was back then, I threw rocks at them to piss off the bees, then tipped one over with a stick and tried to make a run for it.
Got stung at least a half dozen times and was in tears running home.
This post was edited on 2/16/13 at 7:34 pm
Posted on 2/16/13 at 7:34 pm to Alahunter
My dad tried it. It's a fricking science. Would buy hives and the bastards would skip town as soon as he would get them transported. Bees there Sunday night. Bees gone by Monday afternoon. Never could figure it out. I came home one weekend and he took me out to where the hives were placed, right under his martin gourds. Nothing......
Posted on 2/16/13 at 7:35 pm to Alahunter
Are you fricking serious?
If you let honey bees attack you the way you let those chickens attack your shoes, you're gonna die.
If you let honey bees attack you the way you let those chickens attack your shoes, you're gonna die.
Posted on 2/16/13 at 7:41 pm to MSCoastTigerGirl
Posted on 2/16/13 at 7:43 pm to MSCoastTigerGirl
Serious.
One more season, or after a couple of bushhoggings, probably getting a couple/few cows too.
Fresh eggs, chicken, honey and steaks.
One more season, or after a couple of bushhoggings, probably getting a couple/few cows too.
Fresh eggs, chicken, honey and steaks.
Posted on 2/16/13 at 7:44 pm to Alahunter
You better be careful.
Take some classes or something.
Take some classes or something.
Posted on 2/16/13 at 7:45 pm to Alahunter
Obligatory....
There was a bee keeper on my family's farm while I was growing up.
It seemed pretty low maintenance once he got it going.
There was a bee keeper on my family's farm while I was growing up.
It seemed pretty low maintenance once he got it going.
Posted on 2/16/13 at 7:46 pm to MSCoastTigerGirl
I am. Going to some classes now, and my dad used to raise them when I was younger. This ain't my first rodeo.
Posted on 2/16/13 at 7:48 pm to MSCoastTigerGirl
And there's some city folk who have raised bees in the limits. So HAH.
Posted on 2/16/13 at 7:49 pm to BluegrassBelle
Those can reply then.
Posted on 2/16/13 at 7:50 pm to Alahunter
My cousin do
Posted on 2/16/13 at 7:51 pm to The Nino
How many hives does he have?
Posted on 2/16/13 at 8:01 pm to Alahunter
He has about 10 of those 4 feet tall white beehives...it's a shite ton of bees
This post was edited on 2/16/13 at 8:03 pm
Posted on 2/16/13 at 8:12 pm to The Nino
Lotta honey too. Honey is friggin expensive now. Going rate is about 10 to 12 bucks a quart. I'm gonna start with 2 hives, and if all goes well, split them to 4 next year.
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