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Category: Beekeeping

Moving the Hives to Make Way for… Our Home!

April 15, 2012

Have you ever considered how you would move a stack of boxes containing 60,000 bees in them? I only have two hives, but I felt daunted by this task. You might ask, why move the bees? Well, it happens that the perfect place I picked for my small apiary is right in the middle of … More Moving the Hives to Make Way for… Our Home!

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Mondays feel like this. #lambsofinstagram
Luke: sheep guardian and chief buttlicker. #LGD #lambsofinstagram #farmlifebestlife
“Are you my mama?” This little one tried to nurse on the chickens. #noluck #lambs #babies #farmentertainment
So nice when the snow covers all the junk laying around the farm and makes it look “picturesque”!
It took longer than our plow or shovel, but the sheep eventually made a path through the snow for themselves. Where there’s a will there’s a way!
A boy and his calf. Meet Diva! Since most Summer camps are canceled, our son wanted a project. Diva is his bottle baby, to eventually be sold as a family milk cow. #farmkids #babyanimals
Next week these ladies will be employed to maintain the vegetation under a solar array in Geneva. Interested to know more about #solargrazing? Join our network to learn, meet solar graziers, and get your questions answered: https://solargrazing.mn.co/share/CtLMSMkOZgbxkxkP
A little adorableness to counter the anxiety so many are feeling. Watch for “sproinging,” the technical term for jumping from all 4 feet at once, and watch the poor chicken caught in the melee!
I found this little one close to death this morning. I have never seen a lamb so tiny! A heat lamp and some colostrum tubed right into her stomach worked wonders, and now little Mighty looks like she might just make it after all!
The only good thing about bottle babies is how happy they make my kids... #farmkids
The chickens have taken to riding “sheep taxis” around the lambing barn. One way to avoid getting stepped on, and also enjoy the view over the melee... #lambing #chicken
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