Backyard Chickens & Bees

I went with my neighbors to get new chicks today to replenish the ones that have been lost over the past year to raccoons, the inability to get along with the new flock, or the butcher knife (for the two roosters). Last year we got 11 chicks to go along with the two that were [...]

OK. All my blogging software is up to date, I have nice weather ahead to work, and there is no excuse to not write about my fun in the yard… The bees have done well this winter. There are, of course, only two hives that survived the winter (the smaller one died off last fall), [...]